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Control of the olive fruit fly using genetics-enhanced sterile insect technique

BACKGROUND: The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the major arthropod pest of commercial olive production, causing extensive damage to olive crops worldwide. Current control techniques rely on spraying of chemical insecticides. The sterile insect technique (SIT) presents an alternative, environm...

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Autores principales: Ant, Thomas, Koukidou, Martha, Rempoulakis, Polychronis, Gong, Hong-Fei, Economopoulos, Aris, Vontas, John, Alphey, Luke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22713628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-51