Assertion: female mosquito | /r/HasProperty | sterilized by radiation
Facets:
value: in a laboratory
type: LOCATION
value: in males
type: OTHER
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.