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SEMI-STERILE MUTANTS IN THE ONION MAGGOT, HYLEMYA ANTIQUA (DIPTERA: ANTHOMYIIDAE), POPULATION EFFECTS IN FIELD CAGES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. A. Keith Reid  and
F. L. McEwen
J. A. Keith Reid
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
F. L. McEwen
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
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A sterile insect release may reduce the rate of reproduction in the pest population exposed but has no carry-over potential to succeeding generations. Serebrovskii (1940) suggested the use, in release programs, of semi-sterile insects of such genetic make-up that their reproductive potential is low. The advantage claimed is that this trait would be inherited and would lower the reproductive rate in succeeding generations (Curtis 1968; Rai et al. 1973; Knipling and Klassen 1976). The genetic factor most widely suggested for producing this type of continuing semisterility is the chromosomal rearrangement called a translocation (Fitz-Earle 1976; Robinson 1976). In laboratory and field cage tests, it has been demonstrated that chromosomal translocations reduced the reproductive rate in several insect species in the generation in which the translocation is introduced (Robinson 1976). However, in such experiments, the effect of a single release of individuals on population levels in subsequent generations has not, to date, been demonstrated.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 6 , June 1979 , pp. 749 - 750
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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