pgSIT illustration (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

pgSIT illustration

Caption

An illustration by study coauthor Stephanie Gamez depicts flightless females and sterile male mosquitoes, features of the new precision-guided sterile insect technique, or pgSIT, which is designed to control disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

Credit

Stephanie Gamez, UC San Diego

Usage Restrictions

Must be used in conjunction with pgSIT paper in Nature Communications.

License

Original content

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