Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2012

Seiten: 790-795

Zeitschrift: Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Bandnummer: 42

Heftnummer: 10

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.07.007

URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22858603

Verlag: Elsevier

Abstract: 

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a highly successful biologically-based strategy to control pest insect populations that relies on the large-scale release of sterilized males to render females in the field nonreproductive. For medfly, a mutant-based sexing system is available as well as a transgenic system where a tetracycline-suppressible (Tet-off) toxic molecule is female-specifically produced. However, the former classical genetic system took many years to refine, and the latter system results in female death by a poorly understood mechanism, primarily in the pupal stage after rearing costs have been incurred. Here we describe a Tet-off transgenic embryonic sexing system (TESS) for Anastrepha suspensa that uses a driver construct having the promoter from the embryo-specific A. suspensa serendipity a gene, linked to the Tet-transactivator. This was used to drive the expression of a phospho-mutated variant of the proapoptotic cell death gene, Alhid, from Anastrepha ludens. The system uses a sex-specific intron splicing cassette linked to a cell death gene lethal effector. Progeny from TESS strains heterozygous for the transgene combination were 80-100% males, whereas four double homozygous TESS strains had 100% male-only progeny, with female death limited primarily to embryogenesis. In a large-scale test, more than 30,000 eggs from two strains resulted in 100% male-only progeny. The transgenic sexing approach described here is highly effective and cost-efficient by eliminating most, if not all, female insects early in embryogenesis using a well-characterized apoptotic mechanism. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Schetelig, M. and Handler, A. (2012) A transgenic embryonic sexing system for Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae)., Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 42(10), pp. 790-795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.07.007

APA-Zitierstil: Schetelig, M., & Handler, A. (2012). A transgenic embryonic sexing system for Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae).. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 42(10), 790-795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.07.007