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Genetic control of invasive fish: technological options and its role in integrated pest management
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Thresher, RE and Hayes, K and Bax, NJ and Teem, J and Benfey, TJ and Gould, F, Genetic control of invasive fish: technological options and its role in integrated pest management, Biological Invasions, 16, (6) pp. 1201-1216. ISSN 1387-3547 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/s10530-013-0477-0
Abstract
Genetic options for the control of invasive
fishes were recently reviewed and synthesized at a
2010 international symposium, held in Minneapolis/
St. Paul, MN, USA. The only option currently
available ‘‘off-the-shelf’’ is triploidy, which can be
used to produce sterile males for a release program
analogous to those widely and successfully used for
biological control of insect pests. However, the Trojan
Y and several recombinant options that heritably
distort pest population sex ratios are technologically
feasible, are at or are close to proof-of-concept stage
and are potentially much more effective than sterile
male release programs. All genetic options at this
stage require prolonged stocking programs to be
effective, though gene drive systems are a potential
for recombinant approaches. They are also likely to
differ in their current degree of social acceptability,
with chromosomal approaches (triploidy and Trojan
Y) likely to be the most readily acceptable to the
public and least likely to require changes in legislative
or policy settings to be implemented. Modelling also
suggests that the efficacy of any of these genetic
techniques is enhanced by, and in turn non-additively
enhance, conventional methods of pest fish control.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Biological control, Daughterless, Genetic control, Insect, Recombinant, Triploidy, Trojan Y |
Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Environmental management |
Research Field: | Environmental management |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards |
Objective Field: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Bax, NJ (Professor Nicholas Bax) |
ID Code: | 89690 |
Year Published: | 2014 (online first 2013) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 59 |
Deposited By: | IMAS Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2014-03-12 |
Last Modified: | 2017-10-06 |
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