Pest control by the release of insects carrying a female-killing allele on multiple loci

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1566-1579

  Schliekelman, Paul ^a,b   Gould, Fred ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocidal; Female killing; Genetic control; Multilocus; Sterile insect technique

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; LETHAL GENE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTS; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE;

EID: 0034565839     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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