
Keywords: tephritid fruit flies
![]() |
Effect of the timing of pupal irradiation on the quality and sterility of oriental fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) for use in Sterile Insect TechniqueT. J. Fezza, P. A. Follett and T. E. Shelly, Applied Entomology and Zoology, 8. 2021.![]() The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a target-specific, biologically based method used to control pestiferous tephritids entailing the release of mass-reared, sterilized males of the target species to achieve sterile male x wild female matings. As documented for several ... Keywords: dsRNA, RNAi, SIT, sterile insect technique, tephritid fruit flies, Transformer-2 |
![]() ![]() |
Male-biased adult production of the striped fruit fly, Zeugodacus scutellata, by feeding dsRNA fpecific to Transformer-2M. A. Al Baki, M. Vatanparast and Y. Kim, Insects, 11:211. 2020.![]() ![]() ![]() Sterile insect release technique (SIT) is effective for eradicating quarantine insects including various tephritid fruit flies. When SIT is used for fruit flies, it is challenging to remove females from sterile males due to oviposition-associated piercing damage. This study ... Keywords: dsRNA, RNAi, SIT, sterile insect technique, tephritid fruit flies, Transformer-2 |


Contact
David O’Brochta
Foundation for the
National Institutes of Health
geneconvenevi@fnih.org
RSS