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References for Genetic Control of Screwworm


1) Knipling, E.F. & Travis, B.V. (1937) Relative importance and seasonal activity of Cochliomyia americana C.& P. and other wound-infesting blowflies, Valdosta, Ga., 1935-1936. Journal Economic Entomology. 30, 727-735.

2) Snow, J.W., Whitten, C.J., Salinas, A., Ferrer, J. & Sudlow, W.H. (1985) The screwworm. Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Central America and proposed plans for its eradication south to the Darien Gap in Panama.Journal of Medical Entomology 22, 353-360.

3) Cushing, E.L. & Patton, W.S. (1933) Studies on the higher Diptera of medical and veterinary importance. Cochliomyia americana, sp. nov., the screwworm fly of the New World. Annual Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 27, 539-551.

4) Richardson, R.H., Ellison, J.R. & Averhoff, W.W. (1982) Autocidal control of screwworms in North America. Science (Washington, DC) 215, 361-370.

5) Barrett, W.L. (1937) Natural dispersion of Cochliomyia americana. Journal of Economic Entomology 30, 837-836.

6) Adams, A.L. & Alley, D.A. (1965) Dispersal of released irradiated laboratory-reared screwworm flies. Journal of Economic Entomology, 58, 373-374.

7) Laake, E.W., Cushing, E.C. & Parish, H.E. (1936) Biology of the primary screwworm fly, Cochliomyia americana, and a comparison of its stages with those of C. macellaria. U.S. Department Agriculture Technical Bulletin 500.

8) Nei, M. (1978) Estimation of average heterozygosity and genetic distance from a small number of individuals. Genetics, 89, 583-590.

9) Bush, G.L. & Neck, R.W. (1976) Ecological genetics of the screwworm fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and its bearing on the quality control of mass-reared insects. Environmental Entomology, 5, 821-826.

10) Makela, M.E. & Richardson, R.H. (1978) Hidden, reproductively isolated populations: one of nature’s countermeasures to genetic pest control, pp49-66. In R.H. Richardson (ed.), The screwworm problem, evolution of resistance to biological control. University of Texas Press, Austin.

11) Roehranz, R.L. & Johnson, D.A. (1988) Mitochondrial DNA variation among geographical populations of the screwworm fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax. Journal Medical Entomology, 25 (2), 136-141.

12) Taylor, D.B. & Peterson, R.D. (1994) Population genetics and gene variation in primary and secondary screwworm (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 87 (5), 626-633.

13) Scott, J.A., Brogdon, W.G. & Collins, F.H. (1993) Identification of single specimens of the Anopheles gambiae complex by the polymerase chain reaction. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 49, 520-529.

14) Bush, G.L., Neck, R.W. & Kitto, G.B. (1976) Screwworm eradication: selection for noncompetitive ecotypes during mass rearing. Science,193, 491-493.
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