Question 20

(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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