Sterile Insect Technique
Modelling sterile insect technique to control the population of Anopheles gambiae
... the sterile insect technique (SIT) such as the release of insects with a dominant lethal, homing endonuclease genes, or flightless mosquitoes are in ...
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Evaluating the potential of the sterile insect technique for malaria control: relative fitness and mating compatibility between laboratory colonized and a wild population of Anopheles arabiensis from the Kruger National Park, South Africa
... The sterile insect technique is based on the use of laboratory reared sterile males which are mass released into natural environments that differ from those in which they were ...released ...
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Feeding Frequency and its Related Effect on Productivity and Survival Rate of Glossina Pallidipes in Kality Tsetse Mass Rearing and Production Center for the Purpose of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)
... The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is non – intrusive to the environment which entails the release of sterile male flies obtained by mass rearing and this depends on the availability of a ...
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Seasonal variation in recapture of mass-reared sterile codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): implications for control by sterile insect technique in British Columbia
... In spite of extensive spraying, five years of moth release (1994 - 1998), and S:W ratios during second-generation that were always above 40:1 in 1997 and 1998 (Table 2), first-generation moths persisted into 1999 in the ...
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Control of the olive fruit fly using genetics-enhanced sterile insect technique
... The sterile insect technique (SIT) presents an alternative, environmentally friendly and species-specific method of population ...released sterile populations, and low competitiveness of the ...
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Extinction Conditions from a One Sided Competition Model with a Holling Type I Functional Response for the Sterile Insect Technique
... of sterile males to be released in order to achieve the extinction of the pest population will be determined for different ...the Sterile Insect Technique in the literature, such as ...
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Mating competitiveness of sterile genetic sexing strain males (GAMA) under laboratory and semi field conditions: Steps towards the use of the Sterile Insect Technique to control the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis in South Africa
... South Africa has made significant progress towards re- ducing its malaria burden. The disease is now limited to northern KwaZulu-Natal, eastern Mpumalanga and north-eastern Limpopo provinces [1]. In these areas, malaria ...
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The Level of Egg Sterility and Mosquitoes Age After The Release of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in Ngaliyan Semarang
... Dengue control efforts have not provided adequate results. Therefore we need other measures like sterile insect Technique (SIT). This study aimed to observe the level of egg sterility and age of ...
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A review on the progress of sex separation techniques for sterile insect technique applications against Anopheles arabiensis
... the sterile insect technique (SIT) as a malaria vector control strategy against Anopheles arabiensis has been under investigation over the past ...this technique to mosquito control is the ...
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A transgenic male-only strain of the New World screwworm for an improved control program using the sterile insect technique
... both sterile males and females into the ...the sterile males would directly search for wild females with- out being distracted by co-released sterile ...male-only sterile releases increased ...
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Use of carbon 13 as a population marker for Anopheles arabiensis in a sterile insect technique (SIT) context
... Stable isotopes are naturally abundant in the environ- ment, safe and non-radioactive [9]. It should be noted, therefore, that stable isotopes are very different from the radioactive isotopes used for insect ...
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Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata(Diptera: Tephritidae)
... larval damage to targeted food would still be present and transgenes would be transferred into the wild population due to pupal survival. These transgenes would carry along transgenesis markers that will also interfere ...
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Eliminating female Anopheles arabiensis by spiking blood meals with toxicants as a sex separation method in the context of the sterile insect technique
... partially sterile males from the control cages achieved lower insemination rates in the new virgin females as they had the opportunity to mate with the surviving females for the duration of the 4 blood feeding ...
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Towards a sterile insect technique field release of Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes in Sudan: Irradiation, transportation, and field cage experimentation
... the sterile males were in preventing a normal seasonal rise in vector density ...million sterile males or 1.25 million sterile male pupae were released ...
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Combined sterile insect technique and incompatible insect technique: sex separation and quality of sterile Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes released in a pilot population suppression trial in Thailand
... 5,000 sterile males were inspected during the first twelve weeks of the intervention, the female contamination was ...5000 sterile males were inspected, and a statistically sig- nificant difference was ...
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Laboratory rearing of Anopheles arabiensis: impact on genetic variability and implications for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) based mosquito control in northern Sudan
... the sterile insect techniques (SIT) based mosquito control programme underway in North- ern Sudan that uses the TMRI population as source of sterile male ...
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Use of mechanical and behavioural methods to eliminate female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus for sterile insect technique and incompatible insect technique applications
... Use of endosymbiotic Wolbachia is a method to induce sterility in Aedes mosquitoes, and is referred to as an incompatible insect technique [15–20]. Wol- bachia are maternally inherited alphaproteobacteria ...
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Mathematical Modelling of Sterile Insect Technology for Mosquito Control
... The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a biological control which disorders the natural reproductive process of in- sects; male insects are first made sterile by gamma radiation before ...
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Use of rhodamine B to mark the body and seminal fluid of male Aedes aegypti for mark-release-recapture experiments and estimating efficacy of sterile male releases
... male-based sterile insect technique (SIT) control programs, including those reliant on radiation [17], genetic modification [18, 19], and the use of the Wolbachia bac- teria to induce male sterility ...
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Field site selection: getting it right first time around
... the sterile insect technique (SIT) requires consideration of the full gamut of factors facing most proposed control strategies, but four criteria identify an ideal site: 1) a single malaria vector, ...
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