The strategy of releasing sterile males to reduce populations has been used for ...

DrScump on July 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquito...

The strategy of releasing sterile males to reduce populations has been used for decades.

This adds the sterilization of eggs carried by the mated females, so that females can't subsequently mate with wild, fertile males. This is a big upgrade.