Location: Livestock Arthropod Pest Research Unit
Project Number: 3094-32000-044-008-R
Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2023
End Date: Jun 29, 2025
Objective:
The overarching goal of this project is to develop the precision-guided sterile insect technique (pg-SIT) technology to target tick populations that are of concern to livestock production.
Approach:
Microinjection techniques will be developed and optimized for use in tick species, and various genetic constructs will be designed, produced, and delivered to a model tick species to assess feasibility of developing strains in support of pg-SIT.
