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Germline transformation of the spotted wing drosophilid, Drosophila suzukii, with a piggyBac transposon vector.
Genetica - 1 Jun 2013
Schetelig Marc F, Handler Alfred M
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila suzukii is a pest of small fruits in many parts of the world, whose management is limited to cultural practices and the use of insecticides. Here we describe a method to genetically manipulate this species in the first step to create female lethality strains useful for the sterile insect technique method of population suppression. This was achieved by the germ-line transformation of D. suzukii with a...
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