Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of
the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity …

Constructed wetlands (CW) is an environmentally friendly technique for removing pollutants
from wastewater and has been applied to municipal wastewater, petroleum refinery …

Releasing sterile or incompatible male insects is a proven method of population
management in agricultural systems with the potential to revolutionize mosquito control …

Background The introduction of the bacterium Wolbachia (w Mel strain) into Aedes aegypti
mosquitoes reduces their capacity to transmit dengue and other arboviruses. Evidence of a …

During the 1930s and 1940s the idea of releasing insects of pest species to introduce
sterility (sterile insect technique or SIT) into wild populations, and thus control them, was …

Ticks are ectoparasitic arthropods that necessarily feed on the blood of their vertebrate
hosts. The success of blood acquisition depends on the pharmacological properties of tick …

The release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in 2016 and 2017 enabled near-elimination
of the sole dengue vector Aedes albopictus on Shazai and Dadaosha islands in …

Wolbachia, a maternally inherited intracellular bacterial species, can manipulate host insect
reproduction by cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), which results in embryo lethality in crosses …

In mosquitoes, the interaction between the gut microbiota, the immune system, and the
pathogens that these insects transmit to humans and animals is regarded as a key …

In this paper, we study a discrete model on Wolbachia infection frequency. Assume that a
periodic and impulsive release strategy is implemented, where infected males are released …