Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)
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
... target insect population using the sterile insect technique (SIT) partly depends on the premise that the laboratory insects used for mass rearing are genetically compatible with 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 ...Although SIT has been very successful against other ...
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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 ...
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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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Extinction Conditions from a One Sided Competition Model with a Holling Type I Functional Response for the Sterile Insect Technique
... the SIT leading to precise mathematical conditions for the eradication process through a theoretical treatment of suppression ...of sterile males to be released in order to achieve the extinction of the ...
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The Level of Egg Sterility and Mosquitoes Age After The Release of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in Ngaliyan Semarang
... like sterile insect Technique ...using SIT in Ngaliyan ...using SIT indoors was ...after SIT. It can conclude from this research that the SIT release in Ngaliyan village ...
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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 ...
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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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Use of mechanical and behavioural methods to eliminate female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus for sterile insect technique and incompatible insect technique applications
... In addition, the reliability of the method may not remain constant at 100%, as it is dependent on behav- ioral attributes, which can never be controlled com- pletely and may change over time or in response to other ...
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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
... and are able to compete with wild males. Previous studies have reported that the effect of irradiation and/or Wolbachia infection is minimal, if any, on the biological quality of Aedes albopictus by assessing traits such ...
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Modelling sterile insect technique to control the population of Anopheles gambiae
... hypothetical SIT implementations were evaluated with an agent-based model for ...four SIT implementations were represented as a cell-lethal gene expressed in the virtual ...simulate SIT ...
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Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata(Diptera: Tephritidae)
... preventional SIT programs in California or Florida [23] and are desired for every other pest management ...operational SIT programs, since accidental releases would not lead to infestations of 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
... quality controls to assess a strain for mass rearing. The sexing strains of C. hominivorax showed high productivity in all of these fitness parameters as well as a high degree of competitiveness in sexual behavior ...
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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
... the SIT, the fatal effects of these compounds need to be quick and reliable, resulting in 100% female kill, while having no detrimental effects on male mating efficiency following their ...
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Towards a sterile insect technique field release of Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes in Sudan: Irradiation, transportation, and field cage experimentation
... Insects in this study were separated to sex by manual determination of either pupae or adults. For a large-scale SIT programme, this method is obviously not feasible and automated methods of sex-separation are ...
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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
... novel insect control strategies involving mass release must address the issue of the evolutionary trajec- tory of genetic diversity in the released control agents relative to the ...the sterile males, or ...
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Use of carbon 13 as a population marker for Anopheles arabiensis in a sterile insect technique (SIT) context
... of SIT mass rearing operations, mark- recapture studies and the logistics involved, the cost of the label for marking purposes would not be prohibitively ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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