Cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means of controlling culex pipiens quinquefasciatus mosquito in the islands of the South-Western Indian Ocean

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Atyame, Célestine M ^a   Pasteur, Nicole ^a   Dumas, Emilie ^a   Tortosa, Pablo ^b,c   Tantely, Michaël Luciano ^d   Pocquet, Nicolas ^e   Licciardi, Séverine ^b,f   Bheecarry, Ambicadutt ^g   Zumbo, Betty ^e   Weill, Mylène ^a   Duron, Olivier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche et de Veille Sur Les Maladies Emergentes Dans l'Océan Indien   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^e Service de Lutte Anti Vectorielle   (France)

^f CIRAD   (France)

^g Ministry of Health and Quality of Life   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIAN OCEAN; INSECT CONTROL; LETHALITY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; CULEX; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84855301456     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001440     Document Type: Article

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