Table 1

Suggested further reading

Historical perspective

First SIT programme in Florida against the screwworm

[45]

Biography of E.F. Knipling with references to his most important papers

[46]

Models

Use of sterile insects with reduced competitiveness and multiple mating of females

[47]

Use of sterile insects, conditional lethals, hybrid sterility etc.

[48]

Immigration of fertilized females and density dependence

[49]

Genetic basis of sterility

Genetic and non-genetic sterility and early review of the screwworm programme

[50]

Genetic mechanisms involved in radiation sterilization

[51]

Genetics of radiation sterilization and review of genetic sexing strains

[32]

Field programmes

Operational genetic control programmes for vectors

[52]

Field programme successes and failures

[53]

Fruit fly eradication in Japan

[54]

SIT and transgenesis

Inducing molecular sterility using genetic transformation

[55]

Integrating SIT with a transgenic release and review of mosquito SIT programmes

[8]

Modelling the use of molecular sterility

[56]

Robinson et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8(Suppl 2):S1   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-S2-S1