I think that that would be overstating it a little. Let's remember this is in a controlled environment and the goal is not to eliminate the moth species as a whole. I also think that given the frequency of insect life cycle we can safely say that mutational compensation is very possible. The idea of using a flourescent tag to track an insect is really neat!! That's my take on this.
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I think that that would be overstating it a little. Let's remember this is in a controlled environment and the goal is not to eliminate the moth species as a whole. I also think that given the frequency of insect life cycle we can safely say that mutational compensation is very possible. The idea of using a flourescent tag to track an insect is really neat!! That's my take on this.