Development and evaluation of male-only strains of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

BMC Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Scott, Maxwell J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOSOME; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHRYSOMYA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA STRAIN; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM LINE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LETHAL GENE; LIVESTOCK PEST; LUCILIA CUPRINA; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; SEX DETERMINATION; SHEEP DISEASE; TECHNOLOGY; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DIPTERA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

LUCILIA (BLOWFLY); LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA SERICATA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929149147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-15-S2-S3     Document Type: Article

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