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Towards improving sterile insect technique: Exposure to orange oil compounds increases sexual signalling and longevity in Ceratitis capitata males of the Vienna 8 GSS

The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, is a notorious insect pest causing huge economic losses worldwide. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is widely used for its control. Using sexually mature sterilized males of the Vienna 8 (tsl) strain in the laboratory, we explored whether e...

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Autores principales: Kouloussis, Nikos A., Gerofotis, Christos D., Ioannou, Charalampos S., Iliadis, Ioannis V., Papadopoulos, Nikos T., Koveos, Dimitris S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29190755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188092

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