The estimated age at maturity reported here could lead to new estimates of population replacement rates that are much slower than those used in the past. (sciencedaily.com)
Under the milder scenario, called population replacement, genetically modified mosquitoes would gradually displace the wild ones. (discovermagazine.com)
«Challenging events such as the Last Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago, do not lead to massive population replacement, but instead to a bottleneck,» he says. (newscientist.com)