This potentially could be accomplished through insertion of a new growth hormone or by finding a gene that regulates pre-adult growth and deactivation it. Combined with the presence of Insect Growth Regulators, the larva could grow to a significantly larger size. Once successful, the hypothesis would be tested by comparing the output of fungi collected by the harvest of the engineered mosquitos to the predicted market value of the collected fungi. Success in this experiment is not determined by a successful harvest of the fungi, it is determined by the economic viability of this method of mass production of the fungi. While this may seem like a fruitless effort, there has been little progress in mass production of parasitic Coelomomyces fungi through traditional means and a non-traditional approach may be necessary. If nearly forty years of research into growing the Coelomomyces fungi outside of mosquitos has failed, why not try upscaling the only method that is currently guaranteed to
This potentially could be accomplished through insertion of a new growth hormone or by finding a gene that regulates pre-adult growth and deactivation it. Combined with the presence of Insect Growth Regulators, the larva could grow to a significantly larger size. Once successful, the hypothesis would be tested by comparing the output of fungi collected by the harvest of the engineered mosquitos to the predicted market value of the collected fungi. Success in this experiment is not determined by a successful harvest of the fungi, it is determined by the economic viability of this method of mass production of the fungi. While this may seem like a fruitless effort, there has been little progress in mass production of parasitic Coelomomyces fungi through traditional means and a non-traditional approach may be necessary. If nearly forty years of research into growing the Coelomomyces fungi outside of mosquitos has failed, why not try upscaling the only method that is currently guaranteed to