Researchers have found and confirmed a gene that allows female fruit flies to get ... by prospective male mates. That gene, the Iowa researchers say, is present in mosquitoes and can be silenced ...

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In this video, a male fruit fly (species Drosophila melanogaster) flaps its wings, creating a distinct "song" to attract a female. Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual ...

Instead of creating new types of pesticides or machines to eliminate the abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes, a group of researchers from Australia have engineered 'Toxic Male' mosquitoes to ...

Researchers from Australia’s Macquarie University have developed a novel approach to combat these pests called the “toxic male technique” (TMT). Male mosquitoes are being genetically ...

They found mating with modified male flies reduced the lifespan of female flies by up to 64%. Following the fruit fly experiment, researchers used computer models to test how TMT could be applied to ...

Australian researchers have developed a method to genetically modify male mosquitoes to produce venom ... This follows a study involving fruit flies, published in Nature Communications.

A new study by Macquarie University researchers has suggested that the toxic male technique could be used to address the prevalence of mosquito-borne illness. The scientists, which genetically ...

The targeted mosquitos are Aedes aegypti, which spread diseases such as dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya. The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce.

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