sterile insect technique


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ster·ile in·sect tech·nique

a technique used to control or eradicate insect pests or vectors, using induction by irradiation of dominant lethality in the chromosomes of the released insects.
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A recent manual (FAO/IAEA/USDA 2014) on quality control of mass-reared, sterile males used in fruit fly sterile insect technique specifies acceptable levels of performance for certain parameters (e.g., flight ability, mating competitiveness).
Ability of sterile males to inhibit female remating in the melon fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Proposal of vector control by sterile insect technique
Viruses vector control proposal: genus Aedes emphasis
Use of the Sterile Insect Technique against Aedes albopictus in Italy: First Results of a Pilot Trial, pp.
Eficiencia de separacion de pupas machos y hembras de Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) usando un dispositivo de tamizaje.
Did the sterile insect technique or weather eradicate screwworms (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Libya?
Assessment of the threshold temperature for the embryonic development of the screwworm fly/ Determinacao da temperatura base para o desenvolvimento embrionario da mosca-da-bicheira
The sterile insect technique was first used to control the screwworm fly in the southern United States and other areas.
Male malaria mosquito's 'mating plug' fiddled with to control epidemic
Sterile Insect Technique http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/biosecuritysa/planthealth/fruitfly/controlmeasures
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These include Sequential Aerosol Technique (SAT) and Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).
Storage time effect on blood diet for tsetse mass production in sterile insect technique
The meeting aims to contributing in assessing the feasibility of sterile insect technique (SIT) of the integrated management of Screw-Worm Fly control in conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Regional Meeting on Screw-Worm Fly
From many control strategies, sterile insect technique stand out because its design affects parasite reproductive efficiency through induction of dominant lethal mutations on DNA inside male germ cells producing non viable offspring.
Aspectos economicos de la erradicacion del gusano barrenador del ganado, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel, 1858), en Colombia
ARS entomologist James Carpenter, in the Crop Protection and Management Research Unit in Tifton, Georgia, has been studying use of the sterile insect technique (SIT) to establish a barrier along the U.S.
Sticking it to the South American cactus moth: since arriving in Florida, the cactus moth has rapidly moved along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. But it has not been found in the Southwest or in Mexico
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