Oral Ingestion of Transgenic RIDL Ae. aegypti Larvae Has No Negative Effect on Two Predator Toxorhynchites Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nordin, Oreenaiza ^a   Donald, Wesley ^a   Ming, Wong Hong ^a   Ney, Teoh Guat ^a   Mohamed, Khairul Asuad ^a   Halim, Nor Azlina Abdul ^a   Winskill, Peter ^c,d   Hadi, Azahari Abdul ^a   Muhammad, Zulkamal Safi'in ^a   Lacroix, Renaud ^c   Scaife, Sarah ^c   McKemey, Andrew Robert ^c   Beech, Camilla ^c   Shahnaz, Murad ^a   Alphey, Luke ^b,c   Nimmo, Derric David ^c   Nazni, Wasi Ahmed ^a   Lee, Han Lim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; FEMALE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INGESTION; LARVA; LIFE TABLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDATOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXORHYNCHITE; TOXORHYNCHITE AMBOINENSIS; TOXORHYNCHITE SPLENDENS; VIRUS STRAIN;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DENGUE; DIPTERA; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875161109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058805     Document Type: Article

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