novel tools through the establishment
of conditional reproductive sterility
or the refractoriness to disease
transmission [2,3]. In the transmission
of vector-borne diseases, the insect is
only a nuisance, but does not actually
cause the illness itself. This has led
to the long-standing hope that wild
mosquito populations could actually
be replaced by biotechnologically
engineered strains that would be
refractory to the disease causing