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Title: NEW TRANSFORMATION VECTORS FOR IMPROVED SIT AND ECOLOGICAL SAFETY IN TEPHRITID SPECIES

Author
item Handler, Alfred - Al
item ZIMOWSKA, GRAZYNA - ENT DEPT, UNIV OF FL
item HORN, C - MAX-PLANCK INST GERMANY

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/15/2006
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: To create transgenic tephritid fruit fly strains for biological control new genetic transformation vectors have been developed for improved sterile insect technique and improved ecological safety. For SIT, vectors have been tested that have strong red fluorescent thoracic phenotypes for field detection and fluorescent sperm for sperm identification and potential genetic sexing. A new vector system has been integrated into the Caribbean and Mediterranean fruit fly that allows post-integration transgene stabilization to ensure strain integrity.