
Meredith Fensom: Update on Self-Limiting Mosquitoes
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Mosquitoes and Their Progeny Are Found in Other Placest
Thered i guess, just to clarify for the listeners, you say their progeny are found in other placest. This is self limiting. So you're saying that those are the males that are allowed to survive in subsequent generations and eventually fizzle out. And the way that we know that, so our mosquitoes are different from the onestat you would find outside,. We give them a fluorescent marker, so we can track all our mosquitoes and their progeny in the wild. Our floridikes mosquito control district partners were really excited to find the progeny of our meal.
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