Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)

BMC Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schetelig, Marc F ^a,e   Caceres, Carlos ^b   Zacharopoulou, Antigone ^c   Franz, Gerald ^d   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; IONIZING RADIATION; LARVA; LETHALITY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEST MANAGEMENT; RADIATION STERILIZATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; LETHAL GENE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CERATITIS CAPITATA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION, IONIZING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 64049093932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-4     Document Type: Article

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