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Biological insect control using "Metarhizium anisopliae": morphological, molecular, and ecological aspects

, 2014
Microbial control of insects is based on the rational use of pathogens to maintain environmentally balanced pest population levels, and Metarhizium anisopliae has been the most studied and most utilized fungal species for that purpose.
P. Tiago, N. T. Oliveira, E. A. L. Lima
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Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management and the Sterile Insect Technique

Sterile Insect Technique, 2021
Area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) focuses on the preventive management of pest populations throughout the ecosystem. It seeks to treat all habitats of the pest population so that none produces migrants to re-establish significant infestations
W. Klassen, M. Vreysen
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A Review of Propulsion, Power, and Control Architectures for Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Vehicles

, 2018
Flying insects are able to navigate complex and highly dynamic environments, can rapidly change their flight speeds and directions, are robust to environmental disturbances, and are capable of long migratory flights.
E. Helbling, R. Wood
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Deep orange gene editing triggers temperature-sensitive lethal phenotypes in Ceratitis capitata

BMC Biotechnology
Background The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, is a significant agricultural pest managed through area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) including a sterile insect technique (SIT) component.
Germano Sollazzo, Katerina Nikolouli, Georgia Gouvi, Roswitha A. Aumann, Marc F. Schetelig, Kostas Bourtzis   +5 more
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Harnessing Insect-Microbe Chemical Communications To Control Insect Pests of Agricultural Systems.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2017
Insect pests cause serious economic, yield, and food safety problems to managed crops worldwide. Compounding these problems, insect pests often vector pathogenic or toxigenic microbes to plants. Previous work has considered plant-insect and plant-microbe
J. Beck, R. Vannette
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Sterile insect technique and Wolbachia symbiosis as potential tools for the control of the invasive species Drosophila suzukii

Journal of Pest Science, 2017
Drosophila suzukii, a vinegar fly originated from Southeast Asia, has recently invaded western countries, and it has been recognized as an important threat of a wide variety of several commercial soft fruits.
Katerina Nikolouli, H. Colinet, D. Renault, Thomas Enriquez, L. Mouton, P. Gibert, F. Sassù, C. Cáceres, C. Stauffer, R. Pereira, K. Bourtzis   +10 more
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Phytosanitary irradiation as an effective treatment for Drosophila suzukii

Scientific Reports
Drosophila suzukii is a pest native to Southeast Asia that causes significant economic losses to soft fruit crops. Phytosanitary irradiation is a promising treatment for D. suzukii hosts; yet an internationally recognized irradiation protocol is lacking.
Inajara V. Gomes, Augusto C. F. P. Sobreira, Jhonatan S. Aguilar, Lissette G. Carrera, Jennifer L. Andrade, Carlos Caceres, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Christian Stauffer, Scott W. Myers, Vanessa S. Dias   +9 more
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Nuclear and Wolbachia-based multimarker approach for the rapid and accurate identification of tsetse species

BMC Microbiology, 2018
Background Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are solely responsible for the transmission of African trypanosomes, causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
Antonios A. Augustinos, Irene K. Meki, Guler Demirbas-Uzel, Gisele M. S. Ouédraogo, Aggeliki Saridaki, George Tsiamis, Andrew G. Parker, Adly M. M. Abd-Alla, Kostas Bourtzis   +8 more
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Trends in the classical biological control of insect pests by insects: an update of the BIOCAT database

BioControl (Dordrecht), 2016
The BIOCAT database of introductions of insect biological control agents for the control of insect pests was updated to the end of 2010 to include 6158 introductions, using 2384 different insect biological control agents against 588 pest species in 148 ...
M. Cock, S. Murphy, M. Kairo, E. Thompson, Rebecca J. Murphy, Antonio W. Francis   +5 more
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Development of a novel genetic sexing strain of Ceratitis capitata based on an X-autosome translocation

Scientific Reports, 2023
Genetic sexing strains (GSS), such as the Ceratitis capitata (medfly) VIENNA 8 strain, facilitate male-only releases and improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of sterile insect technique (SIT) applications.
Carlos Cáceres, Kostas Bourtzis, Georgia Gouvi, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Nanwintoum Séverin Bimbilé Somda, Martina Hejníčková, František Marec, José S. Meza   +7 more
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