Insect Transgenesis

Alfred M. Handler, Anthony A. James

SECTION I — INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 An Introduction to the History and Methodology of Insect Gene Transfer/Alfred M. Handler -- SECTION II — GENE TARGETING -- Chapter 2 Targeted Transformation of the Insect Genome/Paul Eggleston and Yuguang Zhao -- Chapter 3 Site-Specific Recombination for the Genetic Manipulation of Transgenic Insects/Yikang S. Rong and Kent G. Golic -- SECTION III —TRANSGENIC SELECTION -- Chapter 4 Eye Color Genes for Selection of Transgenic Insects/Abhimanyu Sarkar and Frank H. Collins -- Chapter 5 Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a Marker for Transgenic Insects/Stephen Higgs and David L. Lewis -- Chapter 6 Resistance Genes as Candidates for Insect Transgenesis/Richard H. ffrench-Constant and Mark Q. Benedict -- SECTION IV — VIRAL VECTORS -- Chapter 7 Pantropic Retroviral Vectors for Insect Gene Transfer/Jane C. Burns -- Chapter 8 Densonucleosis Viruses as Transducing Vectors for Insects/Jonathan Carlson, Boris Afanasiev, and Erica Suchman -- Chapter 9 Sindbis Virus Expression Systems in Mosquitoes: Background, Methods, and Applications Ken E. Olson -- Chapter 10 Retrotransposons and Retroviruses in Insect Genomes/Christophe Terzian, Alain Pelisson, and Alain Bucheton -- Chapter 11 Polydnaviruses and Insect Transgenic Research/Bruce A. Webb -- SECTION V — TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT VECTORS -- Chapter 12 Hermes and Other hAT Elements as Gene Vectors in Insects/Peter W. Atkinson and David A. O ’Brochta -- Chapter 13 Genetic Engineering of Insects with mariner Transposons/David J. Lampe, Kimberly K. O. Walden, John M. Sherwood, and Hugh M. Robertson -- Chapter 14 The TTAA-Specific Family of Transposable Elements: Identification, Functional Characterization, and Utility for Transformation of Insects/Malcolm J. Fraser, Jr. -- SECTION VI — SYMBIONT VECTORS -- Chapter 15 Wolbachia as a Vehicle to Modify Insect Populations/Steven P. Sinkins and Scott L O 'Neill -- Chapter 16 Bacterial Symbiont Transformation in Chagas Disease Vectors/Charles B. Beard, Ravi V. Durvasula, and Frank F. Richards -- SECTION VII — STRATEGIES, RISK ASSESSMENT, AND REGULATION -- Chapter 17 The Application of Transgenic Insect Technology in the Sterile Insect Technique/Alan S. Robinson and Gerald Franz -- Chapter 18 Control of Disease Transmission through Genetic Modification of Mosquitoes/Anthony A. James -- Chapter 19 Deploying Transgenic Arthropods in Pest Management Programs: Risks and Realities/Marjorie A. Hoy -- Chapter 20 Regulation of Transgenic Arthropods and Other Invertebrates in the United States/Orrey P. Young, Shirley P Ingebritsen, and Arnold S. Foudin -- Index.