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Transgenic insects : techniques and applications / edited by Mark Q. Benedict, University of Perugia, Italy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CABI biotechnology series ; 3.
- CABI biotechnology series ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals, Genetically Modified.
- Insecta--genetics.
- Insect Control.
- Transgenic organisms.
- Insects--Genetics.
- Insects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Animals, Genetically Modified.
- Insecta--genetics.
- Insect Control.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 375 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Insect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. Many important insects can now be routinely transformed with effectors that have useful applications. Agriculture presents the largest market for transgenic insects and has a foundational history of success with sterile insect technique for control of pests including Mediterranean fruit flies and screwworms. Biotechnology will contribute superior markers, suppressible sterility and sex-conversion.
- Contents:
- Transposons for insect transformation
- Transposon-based technologies for insects
- Sex-, tissue-, and stage-specific transgene expression
- Docking systems for site-directed transgene integration
- Inducible and repressible systems for transgene expression
- Sex ratio manipulation for insect population control
- Conditional dominant lethals : RIDL
- Tephritid fruit fly transgenesis and applications
- Silkworm transgenesis and applications
- Transgenic approaches for sterile insect control of dipteran livestock pests and lepidopteran crop pests
- Anti-pathogen effector molecules : current and future strategies
- Sexual sterilization of mosquitoes
- Alternative transgenic approaches to modifying insect phenotypes
- Paratransgenesis in mosquitoes and other insects : microbial ecology and bacterial genetic considerations
- Asaia paratrangenesis in mosquitoes
- Paratransgenic control of chagas disease
- Tsetse paratransgenesis : a novel strategy for reducing the spread of african trypanosomiases
- RIDL : modelling release of insects carrying a dominant lethal
- Assessing risk of transgenic insects
- Economics of transgenic insects for field release
- Risk analysis and the regulation of transgenic insects
- Public acceptability of new insect vector control technologies
- The Cartagena protocol on the transboundary movement of living modified organisms : the regulation of trade in transgenic organisms under international and European environmental law.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Transgenic insects.
- ISBN:
- 9781780644523
- 1780644523
- OCLC:
- 895429626
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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