Control of the olive fruit fly using genetics-enhanced sterile insect technique

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ant, Thomas ^a,b   Koukidou, Martha ^a   Rempoulakis, Polychronis ^a,c   Gong, Hong Fei ^a   Economopoulos, Aris ^c   Vontas, John ^c   Alphey, Luke ^a,b  

^a OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autocidal control; Bactrocera oleae; Insect transgenics; Olive fly; Release of insects carrying a dominant lethal; Ridl; Sit; Sterile insect technique

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BACTROCERA OLEAE; HEXAPODA; OLEA EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OLIVE TREE; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEPHRITIDAE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; OLEA; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TEPHRITIDAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84862292215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-51     Document Type: Article

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