Assertion: mosquito's population | /r/CapableOf | drop by 94 percent
Facets:
value: between 2019
type: TEMPORAL
value: between 2016
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Populations of the species dropped by 94 percent between 2016 and 2019 following the introduction into the wild of female mosquitoes that had been sterilized by radiation in a laboratory and males that had been infected with a strain of the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, which impeded the males’ ability to reproduce and transmit disease.