Marshall John, Morikawa Koji, Manoukis Nicholas, Taylor Charles
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
J Vis Exp. 2007(5):227. doi: 10.3791/227. Epub 2007 Jul 4.
Charles Taylor and John Marshall explain the utility of mathematical modeling for evaluating the effectiveness of population replacement strategy. Insight is given into how computational models can provide information on the population dynamics of mosquitoes and the spread of transposable elements through A. gambiae subspecies. The ethical considerations of releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild are discussed.
查尔斯·泰勒和约翰·马歇尔解释了数学建模在评估种群替代策略有效性方面的作用。深入探讨了计算模型如何能够提供有关蚊子种群动态以及转座元件在冈比亚按蚊亚种中传播的信息。文中还讨论了将转基因蚊子释放到野外所涉及的伦理考量。
