Engineered female-specific lethality for control of pest lepidoptera

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 160-166

  Jin, Li ^a,b   Walker, Adam S ^a   Fu, Guoliang ^a,b   Harvey Samuel, Timothy ^a,b   Dafa'Alla, Tarig ^a   Miles, Andrea ^a   Marubbi, Thea ^a   Granville, Deborah ^a   Humphrey Jones, Nerys ^a   O'Connell, Sinead ^a   Morrison, Neil I ^a   Alphey, Luke ^a,b  

^a OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

doublesex; insect; moth; RIDL; SIT; sterile insect technique; transgenic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; FEMALE; FEMALE SPECIFIC LETHALITY; GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LEPIDOPTERA; LETHALITY; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA; PEST CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION STERILIZATION; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE;

EID: 84875125764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb300123m     Document Type: Article

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