Pre-release feeding on yeast hydrolysate enhances sexual competitiveness of sterile male Queensland fruit flies in field cages

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-166

  Pérez Staples, Diana ^a,c   Weldon, Christopher W ^a   Smallridge, Catherine ^a,b   Taylor, Phillip W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

irradiation; Assortative mating; Bactrocera tryoni; Diptera; Laboratory domestication; SIT; Sterile insect technique; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EMERGENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; FRUIT; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LONGEVITY; REARING; SPERM COMPETITION; STERILITY; WILD POPULATION; YEAST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

BACTROCERA TRYONI; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 64549147537     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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