Assessing the Feasibility of Controlling Aedes aegypti with Transgenic Methods: A Model-Based Evaluation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Legros, Mathieu ^a,b   Xu, Chonggang ^a,c   Okamoto, Kenichi ^a   Scott, Thomas W ^b,d   Morrison, Amy C ^b   Lloyd, Alun L ^a,d   Gould, Fred ^a,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE KILLING; GENETIC STRAIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERU; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SUPPRESSION; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; UNCERTAINTY; VECTOR CONTROL;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PERU;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84871351863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052235     Document Type: Article

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