Female adult hornfly gene expression vs male adult hornfly gene expression

ABSTRACT: Background: The horn fly, Haematobia irritans (L.), is an obligate blood-feeding parasite of cattle and control of this pest is a continuing problem in the United States and other parts of the world. Worldwide annual economic losses attributable to this pest surpass $1 billion. The fly is becoming resistant to pesticides and new control technologies are needed by cattle producers. Results: Dominant conditional lethal gene systems are being investigated as population control technologies against agricultural insect pests. One of the critical components of these systems is a highly expressed female-specific gene promoter which can be used to drive expression of a lethality-inducing gene. To identify candidate genes to supply this gene promoter, microarrays were designed from a recently devel

ORGANISM(S): Haematobia irritans

SUBMITTER: Scot Dowd 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11363 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress