Combining the sterile insect technique with the incompatible insect technique: III-robust mating competitiveness of irradiated triple wolbachia-infected aedes albopictus males under semi-field conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Dongjing ^a,b   Lees, Rosemary Susan ^b   Xi, Zhiyong ^a,c   Bourtzis, Kostas ^b   Gilles, Jeremie R L ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INCOMPATIBLE INSECT TECHNIQUE III; INSECT CONTROL; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MATING COMPETITIVENESS; MATING COMPETITIVENESS INDEX; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SEX RATIO; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; WOLBACHIA; AEDES; ANIMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE STERILIZATION; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84962346059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151864     Document Type: Article

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