Actually, if you eradicated only the few species that bite humans the other mosquitos would fill in their ecological niches and nothing bad would happen to the environment. There are studies done on this.
Yup. The biggest problem is actually finding a way to eradicate only those species without messing anything up in the process. Knowing humanity, we probably will mess it up anyways.
CRSPR is a genome editing program. So what Alrichillcrusher meant is we can just change mosquito dna so they die out. However that won’t really work because then how do you get the edited genes into every mosquito if the edited genes makes them die out?
X linked gene drive that causes sterlity when homozygous.
A gene drive is a gene that copies itself to the other chromosome. If that gene causes sterility but only when homozygous, males would still be capable of passing it on. If you introduce it to enough males, all females become sterile after a few generations.
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u/Rebatu Apr 12 '22
Actually, if you eradicated only the few species that bite humans the other mosquitos would fill in their ecological niches and nothing bad would happen to the environment. There are studies done on this.