Tephritid flies attack a large variety of fruits, which constitute highly-priced commodities in
many countries. Insecticides have been used extensively for their control. Although resistance …

BACKGROUND: Among target pests of the insecticide spinosad is the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera
oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae). In Cyprus, spinosad has been sporadically used …

In insects, rapidly evolving primary sex-determining signals are transduced by a conserved
regulatory module controlling sexual differentiation. In the agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata (…

The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the most important pest
of olives in countries around the Mediterranean basin. Its control has been based mostly on …

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play critical regulatory roles in various cellular and
metabolic processes in mosquitoes and all other organisms studied thus far. In particular, their …

Background The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most important pest in the olive fruit
agribusiness industry. This is because female flies lay their eggs in the unripe fruits and upon …

Real-time quantitative-PCR has been a priceless tool for gene expression analyses. The
reaction, however, needs proper normalization with the use of housekeeping genes (HKGs), …

Anopheles arabiensis, one of the two most potent malaria vectors of the gambiae complex,
is characterized by the presence of chromosomal paracentric inversions. Elucidation of the …

Background The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most devastating pest of cultivated olives.
Its control has been traditionally based on insecticides, mainly organophosphates and …

… Kostas D. Mathiopoulos … Mathiopoulos, Evangelos Papafrangas, Efi Petinaki, A
T2504A mutation in the 23S rRNA gene responsible for high-level resistance to linezolid of …