Team:Tongji China/Demonstrate
Tongji iGEM
Tongji iGEM
Demonstrate
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Situation
Our project aims to control the population of Diptera insects such as mosquitos, which do harm to human health. Among all the Diptera insects, Drosophila melanogaster is the only model creature, which has good methods to culture and operate, so we choose it as chassis to test our design in our project.
It will be great for us to get accurate changes of the whole population in the natural environment to test our system. But in fact, it is almost impossible for us to observe a small group in a specific area due to the lack of equipment and skills. Although Drosophila melanogaster has been regarded as a model creature for a long history, we only find a little published data about population changes of it.
Therefore, building the population growth model can help determine the effect of our system applying to natural environment.
It will be great for us to get accurate changes of the whole population in the natural environment to test our system. But in fact, it is almost impossible for us to observe a small group in a specific area due to the lack of equipment and skills. Although Drosophila melanogaster has been regarded as a model creature for a long history, we only find a little published data about population changes of it.
Therefore, building the population growth model can help determine the effect of our system applying to natural environment.
