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Insect Transgenesis and the Sterile Insect Technique

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The establishment of broadly applicable insect transgenesis systems will enable the analyses of gene function in diverse insect species. This will greatly increase our understanding of diverse aspects of biology so far not functionally addressable. Moreover, insect transgenesis will provide novel strategies for insect pest management and the means to impair transmission of pathogens by human disease vectors. Especially the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) might be improved by the use of transgenic approaches. The SIT represents an effective and ecologically safe method for area-wide pest control that reduces the pest population by mass release of sterilized organisms, leading to infertile matings and in consequence to a decline of the pest population. Although the SIT is already successfully applied for some species, each of its steps – mass-rearing, sex-separation for male-only releases, sterilization, and marking for monitoring – can be improved biotechnologically to optimize the efficiency and to reduce the costs of ongoing programs or to transfer this effective technique to a wider range of species. However, this powerful transgenic technology must be applied with great care to avoid harm to our environment.

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Our own work on this subject has been supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation (EAW) within the program “International Research into the Development of Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry,” the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (EAW), the BMBF (EAW), and the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (EAW). For many of the ideas presented here, we are indebted to many informative and interesting discussions with excellent colleagues especially at the International Atomic Energy Agency funded meetings of the Coordinated Research Projects “The Use of Molecular Tools to Improve the Effectiveness of SIT” and “Development and Evaluation of Improved Strains of Insect Pests for SIT.”

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Schetelig, M.F., Wimmer, E.A. (2011). Insect Transgenesis and the Sterile Insect Technique. In: Vilcinskas, A. (eds) Insect Biotechnology. Biologically-Inspired Systems, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9641-8_9

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