Wolbachia Bulletin

Wolbachia Mosquitoes – The Field

Site Selection for Wolbachia Infected Aedes aegypti Release At present, two sites have been identified to be suitable for population replacement trial run. The sites are 1) AU2 Keramat, Selangor and 2) Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor. These sites have been identified as dengue hotspot areas. Besides, there are some other selection criteria to be included in selecting trial sites such as presence of high population of both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus, ...

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Wolbachia Mosquitoes – The Lab

As Wolbachia cannot survive outside cells, Wolbachia infections in a new host species are created by injecting the mosquito eggs using a technique called microinjection. For example, cytoplasm containing natural Wolbachia is withdrawn from the eggs of Aedes albopictus or the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and then injected into Aedes aegypti eggs from a Malaysian colony. The injected eggs are hatched and those adults that subsequently...

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