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DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t matter if the female is deaf. She still calls for mating and the males will hear her.

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• mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think this is useful. Looks like an explanation about why deaf mosquitoes aren’t common.

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.

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    • mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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