What is it about?
The goal is to have a marker in the diet, and stable isotopes can reveal which are the sterile insects.
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Why is it important?
If you know how many sterile and wild insects, you know if you are making progress at making the wild insects rare.
Perspectives
This was a great example of an FAO/International Atomic Energy Agency Cooperative Research Project, testing a concept to support the development of the ecologically friendly sterile insect technique. Good work - Becky and all !
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Stable Isotope Markers Differentiate between Mass-Reared and Wild Lepidoptera in Sterile Insect Technique Programs, Florida Entomologist, June 2016, Florida Entomological Society,
DOI: 10.1653/024.099.sp120.
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