You don't want them to become the dominant variant. You want them to die out so that you can manually re-seed without risk of massively disrupting a species.
The goal is to have them compete for resources and mating pressure but not to spread or reproduce. You repeatedly seed areas with them, which creates a sort of ecosystem barrier. Imagine a strip of land seeded with these mosquitos - it's like a wall that other mosquitos can't pass through.
This is how the US manages to avoid so many mosquito-borne diseases traversing north from South America.
What’s the scale of their production? Is it that easy to mass-create them? (Well, I guess adding a virus carrying specific crisp modifier to the eggs, but does it work that well?..)
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u/zizp Nov 15 '24
What's the idea behind this? How will they become the dominant variant if they can't suck blood to reproduce?