Field performance of a genetically engineered strain of pink bollworm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Simmons, Gregory S ^a,b   McKemey, Andrew R ^c   Morrison, Neil I ^c   O'Connell, Sinead ^c   Tabashnik, Bruce E ^d   Claus, John ^a   Fu, Guoliang ^c   Tang, Guolei ^a   Sledge, Mickey ^a   Walker, Adam S ^c   Phillips, Caroline E ^c   Miller, Ernie D ^a   Rose, Robert I ^e   Staten, Robert T ^a   Donnelly, Christl A ^f   Alphey, Luke ^c,g  

^a Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine   (United States)

^c OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e Faculty of Medicine Imperial College London ^*  (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PEST CONTROL; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MATING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PINK BOLLWORM; POPULATION DISPERSAL; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052713070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024110     Document Type: Article

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