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Old November 4, 2011   #7
semi_lucid
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Originally Posted by O.P. Mater View Post
I guess if all those males were sterile, it would solve the problem? Like the screw worms in Florida?
Good point. Pickleworms have a built in vulnerability in that they die back to a limited area on a peninsula.

But the Screwworm was vulnerable to the sterile male technique, because;

"the technique centers on a unique reproductive handicap that prevents female hominivorax flies from reproducing more than once in their life-spans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia

I don't know if Pickleworms would have that handicap.

John
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