Natural and engineered mosquito immunity
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Biology
- Vol. 8 (4) , 40
- https://doi.org/10.1186/jbiol143
Abstract
A recent paper in BMC Microbiology shows how suppression of mosquito innate immunity against a virus that the mosquito can normally tolerate increases mosquito mortality. This is just one of several approaches that may soon bring genetics-based mosquito control methods from the laboratory into the field.Keywords
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