TY - JOUR AU - Kittayapong, Patttamaporn AU - Kaeothaisong, Nuanla-ong AU - Ninphanomchai, Suwannapa AU - Limohpasmanee, Wanitch PY - 2018 DA - 2018/12/24 TI - Combined sterile insect technique and incompatible insect technique: sex separation and quality of sterile Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes released in a pilot population suppression trial in Thailand JO - Parasites & Vectors SP - 657 VL - 11 IS - 2 AB - The sterile insect technique (SIT), which is based on irradiation-induced sterility, and incompatible insect technique (IIT), which is based on Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (a kind of male sterility), have been used as alternative methods to reduce mosquito vector populations. Both methods require the release of males to reduce fertile females and suppress the number of natural populations. Different techniques of sex separation to obtain only males have been investigated previously. Our work involves an application of mechanical larval-pupal glass separators to separate Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti males from females at the pupal stage, prior to irradiation, and for use in a pilot field release and to assess the quality of males and females before and after sex separation and sterilization. SN - 1756-3305 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3214-9 DO - 10.1186/s13071-018-3214-9 ID - Kittayapong2018 ER -