title: Sterility introduced by release of genetically altered males to a domestic population of Aedes aegypti at the Kenya coast.
abstract: The release of males heterozygous for one or two sex-linked translocations was effective in introducing a high level of sterility into a domestic population of Aedes aegypti at a Rabai village. The effect of the releases continued for several weeks after the release period.
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes; D000818:Animals; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006579:Heterozygote; D007248:Infertility, Male; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods*; D014178:Translocation, Genetic