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Insect Transgenesis and the Sterile Insect Technique
2010The establishment of broadly applicable insect transgenesis systems will enable the analyses of gene function in diverse insect species. This will greatly increase our understanding of diverse aspects of biology so far not functionally addressable. Moreover, insect transgenesis will provide novel strategies for insect pest management and the means to ...
Marc F. Schetelig, Ernst A. Wimmer
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Re-engineering the sterile insect technique
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2002The mass release of sterile insects (the Sterile Insect Technique, SIT) is a highly effective area-wide method of pest control with a low environmental impact. SIT relies on the sterilization by irradiation of large numbers of insects. This has unavoidable costs in terms of the fitness of the irradiated insects and the financial requirements of ...
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Sterile Insect Technique: Principles, Deployment and Prospects
2022This chapter describes the main principles of the sterile insect technique (SIT), a pest control method that seeks to gradually reduce insect reproduction by releasing sterilized males in large numbers. We highlight the potential and limitations of the use of SIT and explore various future research avenues.
Oliva, Clelia +5 more
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Developing transgenic Anopheles mosquitoes for the sterile insect technique
Genetica, 2010In the last 10 years the availability of the genome sequence of Anopheles gambiae and the development of a transgenic technology for several species of Anopheles mosquitoes have, in combination, helped in enabling us to gain several insights into the biology of these mosquitoes that is relevant to their capacity as vectors of the malaria parasite ...
Nolan, T +6 more
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Issues with combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques
Nature, 2021Riccardo Moretti, Maurizio Calvitti
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The Sterile Insect Technique: A Theoretical Perspective
1986We present a theoretical study of the management of a campaign to eradicate an invasive population of Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wied.), by application of the sterile insect technique, or SIT. The model for the process consists of three interacting populations: wild females, released sterile males, and females in the rearing ...
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Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
Agricultural HistoryAbstract Bitter melon is a popular gourd vegetable native to Okinawa in Japan. However, because of the melon fly, a very damaging pest on the quarantine list, bitter melon could not be sold in mainland Japan until the fly was eradicated from Okinawa Prefecture in 1993 by using the nuclear-derived sterile insect technique (SIT).
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[Sterile insect technique: targeted control without insecticide].
Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial, 2012Sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of disease vector control technique that consists of releasing overwhelming numbers of sterile males. This method provides an environmentally friendly alternative to insecticides. Another advantage of SIT in comparison with other methods is to provide a targeted species-specific approach.
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