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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoIt could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.
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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoIt could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.
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.