I don’t think this is useful. Looks like an explanation about why deaf mosquitoes aren’t common.
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DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
How is this useful? Shouldn’t the female be deaf - or is there something about mosquito mating I don’t understand.
mmddmm@lemm.ee 6 days ago
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
It could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.
mmddmm@lemm.ee 6 days ago
The males won’t pass the mutation to their children, enforcing that it will disappear in 5 or 6 generations… So, if it does anything, it will last for a couple of months at most.
But also, it doesn’t slow down the females at all, and the male mosquito population isn’t usually the bottleneck on their reproduction.
lath@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Doesn’t matter if the female is deaf. She still calls for mating and the males will hear her.