Author: M.J.B. Vreysen, A. S. Robinson
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9781402060588
2007; Hardcover;160x240mm;789 pages with figures

Table of Contents

Section 1: Setting the Scene
● Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM): Principles, Practice and Prospects
● Area-Wide Pest Management: Environmental, Economic and Food Issues
Section 2: Basic Research
● Engineering Insects for the Sterile Insect Technique
● The hobo, Hermes and Herves Transposable Elements of Insects
● Improving the Ecological Safety of Transgenic Insects for Field Release: New Vectors for Stability and Genomic Targeting
● Development of an Embryonic Lethality System in Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capititata
● New Sexing Strains for Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata: Transforming Females into males
● Developing Transgenic Sexing Strains for the Release of Non-Transgenic Sterile Male Codling Moths Cydia pomonella
● Sex Chromatin Body as a Cytogenetic Marker of W Chromosome Aberrations in Cydia pomonella Females
● Potential Use of a Conditional Lethal Transgenic Pink Bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella in Area-Wide Eradication or    Suppression Programmes
● Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility to Control Insect Pests?
● Symbiosis-Based Technological Advances to Improve Tsetse Glossina spp. SIT Application
● Colony Maintenance and Mass-Rearing: Using Cold Storage Technology for Extending the Shelf-Life of Insects
● Improving the Efficacy of the Sterile Insect Technique for Fruit Files by Incorporation of Hormone and Dietary Supplements    into Adult Holding Protocols
● Unfaithful Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata Females: Impact on the SIT?
● Assessing Genetic Variation in New World Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax Populations from Uruguary
● Emerging Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses in Central Europe: Usetu Virus and Novel West Nile Viruses
Section 3: Modeling and Methods Development
Section 4: Feasibility Studies
Section 5: Commercialization and Regulation
Section 6: Pilot Programmes
Section 7: Operational AW-IPM Programmes
Section 8: Lessons Learned