{"id":13338,"date":"2019-09-12T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:25:27","slug":"an-irreversible-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/09\/an-irreversible-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"An irreversible experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-019-49660-6#Tab1\">Scientific Reportsvolume 9, Article number: 13047 (2019)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an attempt to control the mosquito-borne diseases yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika fevers, a strain of transgenically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes containing a dominant lethal gene has been developed by a commercial company, Oxitec Ltd. &#8230;. Evidently, rare viable hybrid offspring between the release strain and the Jacobina population are sufficiently robust to be able to reproduce in nature. The release strain was developed using a strain originally from Cuba, then outcrossed to a Mexican population. Thus, Jacobina Ae. aegypti are now a mix of three populations. It is unclear how this may affect disease transmission or affect other efforts to control these dangerous vectors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population. Scientific Reportsvolume 9, Article number: 13047 (2019). In an attempt to control the mosquito-borne diseases yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika fevers, a strain of transgenically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes containing a dominant lethal gene has been developed by a commercial company, Oxitec Ltd. &#8230;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/09\/an-irreversible-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An irreversible experiment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}