Cai, Zhaohui Guo, Qiongyu Yao, Zhichao Zheng, Wenping Xie, Junfei Bai, Shuai Zhang, Hongyu
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundBactrocera dorsalis is a destructive polyphagous and highly invasive insect pest of tropical and subtropical species of fruit and vegetable crops. The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been used for decades to control insect pests of agricultural, veterinary, and human health importance. Irradiation of pupae in SIT can reduce the ecologi...
Bourtzis, Kostas Cáceres, Carlos Schetelig, Marc F.
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BMC Genetics
Ahmed, Hassan M. M. Heese, Fabienne Wimmer, Ernst A.
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundThe invasive fly Drosophila suzukii has become an established fruit pest in Europe, the USA, and South America with no effective and safe pest management. Genetic engineering enables the development of transgene-based novel genetic control strategies against insect pests and disease vectors. This, however, requires the establishment of re...
Meza, José S. Bourtzis, Kostas Zacharopoulou, Antigone Gariou-Papalexiou, Angeliki Cáceres, Carlos
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundArea-wide integrated pest management programs (AW-IPM) incorporating sterile insect technique (SIT) have been successful in suppressing populations of different fruit fly species during the last six decades. In addition, the development of genetic sexing strains (GSS) for different fruit fly species has allowed for sterile male-only relea...
Yan, Ying Jaffri, Syeda A. Schwirz, Jonas Stein, Carl Schetelig, Marc F.
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundThe spotted-wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) is a widespread invasive pest that causes severe economic damage to fruit crops. The early development of D. suzukii is similar to that of other Drosophilids, but the roles of individual genes must be confirmed experimentally. Cellularization genes coordinate the onset of cell division as s...
Augustinos, Antonios A. Misbah-ul-Haq, Muhammad Carvalho, Danilo O. de la Fuente, Lucia Duran Koskinioti, Panagiota Bourtzis, Kostas
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundAedes aegypti is the primary vector of arthropod-borne viruses and one of the most widespread and invasive mosquito species. Due to the lack of efficient specific drugs or vaccination strategies, vector population control methods, such as the sterile insect technique, are receiving renewed interest. However, availability of a reliable gen...
Anguelov, R. Dumont, Y. Yatat, V.
Vector/Pest control is essential to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases or losses in crop fields. Among biological control tools, the sterile insect technique (SIT), is the most promising one. SIT control generally consists of massive releases of sterile insects in the targeted area in order to reach elimination or to lower the pest population...
Anguelov, Roumen Dumont, Yves Yatat Djeumen, Ivric Valaire
The development of sustainable vector/pest control methods is of utmost importance to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases and pest damages on crops. Among them, the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a very promising one. In this paper, using diffusion operators, we extend a temporal SIT model, developed in a recent paper, into a partially dege...
Aronna, M. Soledad Dumont, Yves
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Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
We consider a minimalist model for the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), assuming that residual fertility can occur in the sterile male population. Taking into account that we are able to get regular measurements from the biological system along the control duration, such as the size of the wild insect population, we study different control strategie...
Mamai, Wadaka Maiga, Hamidou Somda, Nanwintoum Séverin Bimbilé Wallner, Thomas Konczal, Anna Yamada, Hanano Bouyer, Jérémy
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Parasite
The production of a large number of mosquitoes of high biological qualities and reliable sex sorting before release are key challenges when applying the sterile insect technique as part of an area-wide integrated pest management approach. There is a need to fully evaluate the production capacity of the equipment developed in order to plan and maint...
