Susan D. McCombs

Comparison of Wild-Type and Mutant white eye Alleles in Melon Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) (2004)

Nathan C. Peabody, Deborah C. A. Shearman, Susan D. Mccombs

The DNA sequence of the coding region of the wild-type and mutant alleles of the white eye gene from the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae Coquillett, was obtained. The mutant white eye allele had a...

Mating Competitiveness of Male Oriental Fruit Flies from a Translocation Strain (Diptera: Tephritidae) (2000)

Todd E. Shelly, Susan D. McCombs, Donald O. McInnis

A major advance in sterile insect release programs against tephritid fruit fly pests has been the development of genetic sexing strains, which allow the production of males-only lines for field...

The lepidopteran transposon vector, piggyBac, mediates germ-line transformation in the Mediterranean fruit fly

Handler, Alfred M., McCombs, Susan D., Fraser, Malcolm J., Saul, Stephen H.

The piggyBac (IFP2) short inverted terminal repeat transposable element from the cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni was tested for gene transfer vector function as part of a bipartite vector–helper...

The lepidopteran transposon vector, piggyBac, mediates germ-line transformation in the Mediterranean fruit fly

Handler, Alfred M., McCombs, Susan D., Fraser, Malcolm J., Saul, Stephen H.

The piggyBac (IFP2) short inverted terminal repeat transposable element from the cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni was tested for gene transfer vector function as part of a bipartite vector–helper...