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MosqGuide Documents

 

 

Guidance docs:

Module 2 Technology research and production phase

Module 4 Data handling and environmental monitoring - DRAFT

Module 7 Protoype issues/response model for decision making in deployment of GM mosquitoes - PROPOSAL

Publications:

Beech, C.J., Mumford, J., Quinlan, M.M., Capurro M.L. (2011). Update: Deployment of Innovative Genetic Vector Control Strategies including an update on the MosqGuide Project. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 19 (3):101-106.

Mumford et al (2009) MosqGuide: A project to develop best practice guidance for the deployment of innovative genetic vector control strategies for malaria and dengue Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 17 (3): 93-95

Beech, C.J., Vasan, S.S., Quinlan, M.M., Capurro, M.L., Alphey, L.S., Bayard, V., Bouaré, M., McLeod, M.C., Kittayapong, P., Lavery, J.V., et al. (2009). Deployment of
innovative genetic vector control strategies: Progress on regulatory and biosafety
aspects, capacity building and development of best-practice guidance Asian Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 17, 75-85.


Beech CJ, Nagaraju J, Vasan SS, Rose RI, Othman RY, Pillai V, Saraswathy TS (on behalf of the working groups) (2009). Risk analysis of a hypothetical open field release of a self-limiting transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquito strain to combat dengue. AsPac J Mol Biol Biotech; 17(3)99-111

Conference presentations:

Workshop on GM mosquitoes at the 11th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (15-20 November 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Testing and deployment of GM mosquitoes:what is different?

Overview of existing regulatory frameworks

Ethical review process

National capacity for evaluation and decision making

The need for harmonised data requirements

Moving from testing to deployment: ongoing case studies (1)

Moving from testing to deployment: ongoing case studies (2)

Other:

Fact sheet on GM Mosquitoes (2011)

Genetically Modified Insect Reference List

Other GM mosquito materials

Special Issue on Transgenic Insects Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2009, 17 (3)

The Malaria Journal Volume 8 Suppl 2 Development of the sterile insect technique for African malaria vectors Reviews. Edited by Mark Q Benedict, Alan S Robinson and Bart GJ Knols

 

Related topics

FNIH WHO TDR report: Progress and Prospects for the Use of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Inhibit Disease Transmission

Defining Environmental Risk Assessment Criteria for Genetically Modified Insects to be placed on the EU Market

Final Report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (See annex on LMMs)

Murphy B, Jansen C, Murray J, De Barro P (2010). Risk Analysis on the Australian release of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) containing Wolbachia. CSIRO, Australia, Report

Use of Genetically Engineered Fruit Fly and Pink Bollworm in APHIS Plant Pest Control Programs, Final Environmental Impact Statement - October 2008

 

Links

Some useful resources. Click on the links to the right for collaborating institutions.

CDC page on general vector control strategies link here

WHO malaria control programme link here