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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think this is useful. Looks like an explanation about why deaf mosquitoes aren't common.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The males won't pass the mutation to their children, enforcing that it will disappear in 5 or 6 generations... So, if it does anything, it will last for a couple of months at most.

But also, it doesn't slow down the females at all, and the male mosquito population isn't usually the bottleneck on their reproduction.