Multiple Choice
The insect symbiont Wolbachia can be used to suppress disease transmission by mosquitoes because
A) Wolbachia supplies essential nutrients to the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus.
B) only Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes can transmit viral diseases such as dengue fever.
C) Wolbachia infections can spread rapidly through a mosquito population, killing all the mosquitoes.
D) Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes sterilize uninfected female mosquitoes.
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