The sterile insect technique (SIT), an environmentally friendly means of control, is currently
used against plant, animal, and human pests under the area-wide integrated pest …

Malaria disproportionately affects children younger than 5 years. Falciparum malaria is
responsible for more than 200 000 child deaths per year in Africa and vivax malaria is well …

In the pursuit of better pest-and vector-control strategies, attention returns to an old proven
technology, the sterile insect technique (SIT) and related insect population-suppression …

More than three thousand million people live with the risk of malaria. Due to the widespread
resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides and of parasites to chemotherapies, previous gains …

Mosquitoes are fascinating and diverse study organisms that are rapidly becoming
genetically tractable. Here, we review the latest and most commonly used approaches to …

Abstract Background South Africa has set a mandate to eliminate local malaria transmission
by 2023. In pursuit of this objective a Sterile Insect Technique programme targeting the main …

Mosquitoes are vectors for a number of infectious diseases. Only females feed on blood to
provision for their embryos and, in doing so, transmit pathogens to the associated vertebrate …

In the span of a decade we have seen a rapid progress in the application of genetic tools
and genome editing approaches in 'non-model'insects. It is now possible to target sensory …

The feasibility of the sterile insect technique (SIT) as a malaria vector control strategy against
Anopheles arabiensis has been under investigation over the past decade. One of the critical …

Ndo et al.[7] report the isolation, establishment and the characterization of a temperature-
sensitive lethal (tsl) mutant strain in An. arabiensis and describe its potential use for the …