The requirement to develop new techniques for insect control that minimize negative
environmental impacts has never been more pressing. Here we discuss population suppression …

Sequencing technologies have fuelled a rapid rise in descriptions of microbial communities
associated with hosts, but what is often harder to ascertain is the evolutionary significance of …

Mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya, cause morbidity and
mortality around the world. Recent advances in gene drives have produced control methods …

Culex mosquitoes pose a significant public health threat as vectors for a variety of diseases
including West Nile virus and lymphatic filariasis, and transmit pathogens threatening …

The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly, Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann) is a pest of over 300 fruits,
vegetables and nuts. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a control measure used to reduce …

Experimental studies of the evolution of reproductive isolation (RI) in real time are a powerful
way in which to reveal fundamental, early processes that initiate divergence. In a classic …

Promising to provide powerful genetic control tools, gene drives have been constructed in
multiple dipteran insects, yeast, and mice for the purposes of population elimination or …

Homing-based gene drives are recently proposed interventions promising the area-wide,
species-specific genetic control of harmful insect populations. Here we characterise a first set …

Genetic pest management (GPM) methods involve releasing modified versions of a pest
species to mate with wild pests in the target area. Proposed for a wide range of applications in …

Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are vectors of the RNA viruses
chikungunya (CHIKV) and dengue that currently have no specific therapeutic treatments. The …