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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by jasonwatkinspdx on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:26PM (#11537462)
How would sterile mosquitoes transfer genetic material?
Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by alphydan on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:44PM (#11537973)
I assume that mutating. We release 1bn sterile mosquitoes, most die, but 1,000 of them have a random mutation on top of the original mutation and become hermaphrodites. Now they reproduce on their own and become invincible microbots that bring zika to the masses.

Of course that could also happen in the wild with some good 'ol cosmic rays and no human intervention.

Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by etiam on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:09PM (#11538121)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

Pickup by virus or other microorganism. Transposons.