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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Decoding and engineering temperature-sensitive lethality in

Roswitha A Aumann, Georgia Gouvi, Maria-Eleni Gregoriou, Tanja Rehling, Germano Sollazzo, Kostas Bourtzis, Marc F Schetelig

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Roswitha A AumannDepartment of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen 35394, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5124-8477
Georgia GouviInsect Pest Control Section, Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/International Atomic Energy Agency Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1400, Austria.
Maria-Eleni GregoriouInsect Pest Control Section, Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/International Atomic Energy Agency Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1400, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-9979-2631
Tanja RehlingDepartment of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen 35394, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4173-9816
Germano SollazzoDepartment of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen 35394, Germany.
Kostas BourtzisInsect Pest Control Section, Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/International Atomic Energy Agency Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1400, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3999-4095
Marc F ScheteligDepartment of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen 35394, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9217-394X

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SCHE 1833/7-1Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action 101059523SITplus, Hort Innovation FF17000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a species-specific and environmentally friendly method for effectively controlling pest insect populations based on releasing reared, sterile insects into infested areas. Sex sorting in rearing facilities, enabling male-only releases, is necessary to ensure SIT programs are efficient, cost-effective and, in case of mosquito control, also safe. This can be greatly facilitated by genetic sexing strains (GSS), exhibiting sex-specific phenotypic markers. However, the development of GSS remains challenging. The construction of a

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Ceratitis capitataPest Control, BiologicalAnimalsFemaleMaleMutationPhenotypeTemperatureCRISPR/Cas gene editinggenetic sexing strainlysine--tRNA ligase (Lysyl-tRNA synthetase, LysRS)mini-gene rescuetsl

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PMID40623181
PMCPMC12280921

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