Real fruit fly fertility increases with average consanguinity thus decreasing with population size in a pattern that is modelled successfully with a virtual population. This invites the deliberate manipulation of wild insect populations for the control of vectors of human disease.
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1 March 2013
Fluctuation of Fertility with Number in a Real Insect Population and a Virtual Population
M.L. Herbert,
M.G. Lewis
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African Entomology
Vol. 21 • No. 1
March 2013
Vol. 21 • No. 1
March 2013
dengue
disease vector
Drosophila melanogaster
fruit fly
gene pool size
insect control
malaria