Modelling sterile insect technique to control the population of Anopheles gambiae

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gentile, James E ^a   Rund, Samuel Sc ^b   Madey, Gregory R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Release of insects with a dominant lethal gene (RIDL); SIT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84928713564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0587-5     Document Type: Article

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