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When Young-Joon flew to Guangdong, he brought three huge containers on the plane with him.
“Is this that…?” Yang Gunyu asked nervously.
“It’s ten million male mosquitoes,” Young-Joon replied through an interpreter.
“...”
Yang Gunyu gulped. He felt like he could hear their buzzing wings through the container.
“This really doesn’t cause any problems in the environment, right…?” Yang Gunyu asked again.
“Yes, don’t worry.”
“But destroying the sex ratio of mosquitoes isn’t exactly natural, so…”
Yang Gunyu seemed anxious.
“It wasn’t natural for the PCBs to leak out either.”
“...”
“And unequal sex ratios are natural,” Young-Joon said.
“It’s natural?”
“In the 1990’s, there was a scientist named Richard Stouthammer. He found a colony of bees that were reproducing asexually. There were only females, and they were reproducing by self-replication. It turned out that it wasn’t a trait of the bees, it was caused by a bacteria called Wolbachia that infected the bees.”
“...”
“When we treated them with antibiotics to get rid of the bacteria, males suddenly appeared and started reproducing sexually.”
“What is that?”
“Wolbachia...
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