Wolbachia pipientis Associated With Tephritid Fruit Fly Pests: From Basic Research to Applications.

ABSTRACT: Members of the true fruit flies (family Tephritidae) are among the most serious agricultural pests worldwide, whose control and management demands large and costly international efforts. The need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly integrated pest management (IPM) has led to the development and implementation of autocidal control strategies. These approaches include the widely used sterile insect technique and the incompatible insect technique (IIT). IIT relies on maternally transmitted bacteria (namely Wolbachia) to cause a conditional sterility in crosses between released mass-reared Wolbachia-infected males and wild females, which are either uninfected or infected with a different Wolbachia strain (i.e., cytoplasmic incompatibility; CI). Herein, we revie

SUBMITTER: Mateos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283806 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature