Transgenic insects : techniques and applications /

• Other Authors: Benedict, Mark Q., (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Series: CABI biotechnology series ; 3.
• Subjects: Animals, Genetically Modified.; Insects > genetics.; Insect Control.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Other Control Measures.; Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Biosafety.; Disease vectors.; Genetic control.; Genetic engineering.; Genetic improvement.; Genetic transformation.; Germ line.; Insect control.; Insect pests.; Pest control.; Phenotypes.; Plant pests.; Risk assessment.; Transgenic animals.
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This book, which is divided into four parts, describes the advances in insect transgenesis. Part 1 deals with germline transformation technology while part 2 focuses on the application of transgenic insects, including plant insect pests and insect vectors (such as mosquitoes). Part 3 shows alternati...

Table of Contents:

• Transposons for Insect Transformation / David A. O'Brochta, Kasim George and Hanfu Xu
• Transposon-Based Technologies for Insects / David A. O'Brochta, Kasim George and Hanfu Xu
• Sex-, Tissue- and Stage-Specific Transgene Expression / Andrew Marc Hammond and Tony Nolan
• Docking Systems for Site-Directed Transgene Integration / Paul Eggleston and Janet M. Meredith
• Inducible and Repressible Systems for Transgene Expression / Rosemary S. Lees, Rocco D'Amato and Mark Q. Benedict
• Sex Ratio Manipulation for Insect Population Control / Philippos A. Papathanos, Nikolai Windbichler and Omar S. Akbari
• Conditional Dominant Lethals - RIDL / Luke Alphey, Martha Koukidou and Neil I. Morrison
• Tephritid Fruit Fly Transgenesis and Applications / Alfred M. Handler and Marc F. Schetelig
• Silkworm Transgenesis and Applications / Hideki Sezutsu and Toshiki Tamura
• Transgenic Approaches for Sterile Insect Control of Dipteran Livestock Pests and Lepidopteran Crop Pests / Maxwell J. Scott, Neil I. Morrison and Gregory S. Simmons
• Antipathogen Effector Molecules : Current and Future Strategies / Michael A. Riehle and Shirley Luckhart
• Sexual Sterilization of Mosquitoes / Paolo Gabrieli, Eric Marois and Flaminia Catteruccia
• Paratransgenesis in Mosquitoes and Other Insects : Microbial Ecology and Bacterial Genetic Considerations / David J. Lampe and Nicholas J. Bongio
• Asaia Paratransgenesis in Mosquitoes / Guido Favia
• Paratransgenic Control of Chagas Disease / Ivy Hurwitz, Nicole Klein, Adam P. Forshaw and Ravi V. Durvasula
• Tsetse Paratransgenesis : a Novel Strategy for Reducing the Spread of African Trypanosomiasis / Brian L. Weiss and Serap Aksoy
• RIDL : Modelling Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal / Nina Alphey and Michael B. Bonsall
• Assessing Risk of Transgenic Insects / M.M. Quinlan
• Economics of Transgenic Insects for Field Release / John D. Mumford and L. Roman Carrasco
• Risk Analysis and the Regulation of Transgenic Insects / Camilla Beech and Tom Miller
• Public Acceptability of New Insect Vector Control Technologies / Katherine F. King, Pamela Kolopack, Lara Zahabi-Bekdash and James V. Lavery
• The Cartagena Protocol on the Transboundary Movement of Living Modified Organisms : The Regulation of Trade in Transgenic Organisms under International and European Environmental Law / Ricardo Pereira.