Engineered Repressible Lethality for Controlling the Pink Bollworm, a Lepidopteran Pest of Cotton

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environmentally friendly method of pest control in which insects are mass-produced, irradiated and released to mate with wild counterparts. SIT has been used to control major pest insects including the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders), a glob...

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Autores principales: Morrison, Neil I., Simmons, Gregory S., Fu, Guoliang, O’Connell, Sinead, Walker, Adam S., Dafa’alla, Tarig, Walters, Michelle, Claus, John, Tang, Guolei, Jin, Li, Marubbi, Thea, Epton, Matthew J., Harris, Claire L., Staten, Robert T., Miller, Ernest, Miller, Thomas A., Alphey, Luke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050922

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