• mmddmm@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    The males won’t pass the mutation to their children, enforcing that it will disappear in 5 or 6 generations… So, if it does anything, it will last for a couple of months at most.

    But also, it doesn’t slow down the females at all, and the male mosquito population isn’t usually the bottleneck on their reproduction.