cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means of controlling culex pipiens quinquefasciatus mosquito in the islands of the south-western indian ocean. | the use of the bacterium wolbachia is an attractive alternative method to control vector populations. in mosquitoes, as in members of the culex pipiens complex, wolbachia induces a form of embryonic lethality called cytoplasmic incompatibility, a sperm-egg incompatibility occurring when infected males mate either with uninfected females or with females infected with incompatible wolbachia strain(s). here we explore the feasibility of the incompatible insect technique (iit), a species-specific co ... | 2011 | 22206033 |