Australian endemic pest tephritids: Genetic, molecular and microbial tools for improved Sterile Insect Technique

BMC Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Raphael, Kathryn A ^a   Shearman, Deborah C A ^a   Gilchrist, A Stuart ^a   Sved, John A ^a   Morrow, Jennifer L ^b   Sherwin, William B ^a   Riegler, Markus ^b   Frommer, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; TRANSCRIPTOME; GENETIC MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTROCERA NEOHUMERALIS; BACTROCERA TRYONI; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; EMBRYO; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT CHROMOSOME; INSECT GENOME; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRID; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOME; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PEST INSECT; SEX DETERMINATION; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TEPHRITIDAE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIPTERA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

BACTROCERA JARVISI; BACTROCERA NEOHUMERALIS; BACTROCERA TRYONI; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AUSTRALIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, INSECT; INFERTILITY; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84928752597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-15-S2-S9     Document Type: Article

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