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chemosterilants

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chemosterilants
chemicals used to render an animal sterile. To date, used principally in creating sterile male insects in the control of single mating insects such as screw-worm.
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Chemosterilants (hormone disruptors) could directly target survivors and thereby reduce the probability of accidentally selecting for pest resistance to the poisoning agents (54).
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