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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Developing the sterile insect technique for Cryptophlebia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): influence of radiation dose and release ratio on fruit damage and population growth in field cages.
Developing field cage tests to measure mating competitiveness of sterile light brown apple moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Western Australia
Although wild flies from a recently established strain were used in the current study, the results have potential relevance to the implementation of the sterile insect technique in controlling infestations of Z.
Yeast hydrolysate deprivation and the mating success of male melon flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Proposal of vector control by sterile insect technique
Viruses vector control proposal: genus Aedes emphasis
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
An example of this is Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).
Try this: life of bugs
Rearing codling moth for the sterile insect technique, paper 199.
Notas sobre el uso correcto del termino tecnico para referirse a la cria masiva de insectos y otros artropodos: cria masiva vs. cria masal y cria en masa
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
Impact of Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that integrate the Sterile Insect Technique.
Problematica del Gusano Barrenador del Ganado, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel, 1858) en Colombia
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.
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
Sterile insect technique (SIT)--The SIT relies on the production of large numbers of the target insect in specialised production centres, the sterilisation of the males (or sometimes both sexes), and the sustained and systematic release of the sterile males over the target area in numbers large enough in relation to the wild male population to out-compete them for wild females.
Perspectivas para el control integrado abarcativo del area de moscas tse-tse (Diptera: Glossinidae) y la tripanosomiasis en el Africa sub-Sahariana
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