Optimal Sex Ratio for the Control of Insects by the Sterility Method1
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 60 (1) , 41-43
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/60.1.41
Abstract
Formulas are derived for the expected number of fertile eggs laid by a population containing fertile and sterile individuals. It is concluded that introduction of sterile individuals of the 2 sexes, for control of population, is never inferior, and sometimes even superior, to the introduction of 1 sex alone.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: