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THE spectacular eradication of the screw-worm fly Callitroga hominovorax (Coquerel) through the release of male flies sexually sterilized by γ-irradiation has stimulated efforts to combat other insect populations by sexual sterilization1,2. Sterilization by γ-irradiation has the disadvantages that it may reduce sexual aggressiveness of males, that huge numbers of insects must be laboratory reared for release subsequent to sterilization by the stationary source of radiation, and that the behaviour patterns of laboratory adapted strains may have become altered from those of wild populations3.
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KLASSEN, W., MATSUMURA, F. Resistance to a Chemosterilant, Metepa, in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. Nature 209, 1155–1156 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091155a0
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