image: Two genetically modified mosquito larvae. Fluorescent marker renders them glowing under a microscope, allowing for discrimination between different strains of genetically modified mosquitoes and wild-type mosquitoes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Pike at Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Changes in the microbiota cause genetically modified Anopheles to spread in a population." view more
Credit: Dr. Yuemei Dong