40 relations: Acari, Acentric fragment, Anaphase, Bombycidae, Bombyx mori, Breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, Centromere, Cochliomyia, Cochliomyia hominivorax, Codling moth, F1 hybrid, Galleria mellonella, Genetically modified insect, Germ cell, Gonocerus acuteangulatus, Hemiptera, Infertility, Kinetochore, Large milkweed bug, Lepidoptera, Lygaeidae, Meiosis, Metaphase, Microtubule, Mitosis, Moth, Mutation, Prophase, Pyralidae, Reduviidae, Rhodnius prolixus, Spider mite, Spindle apparatus, Sterile insect technique, Sterility (physiology), Tephritidae, Tetranychus urticae, Tortricidae, Tsetse fly, Zygote.
Acari
Acari (or Acarina) are a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks.
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Acentric fragment
An acentric fragment is a segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere.
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Anaphase
Anaphase (from the Greek ἀνά, "up" and φάσις, "stage"), is the stage of mitosis after the metaphase when replicated chromosomes are split and the daughter chromatids are moved to opposite poles of the cell.
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Bombycidae
The Bombycidae are a family of moths.
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Bombyx mori
The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar or imago of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree").
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Breakage-fusion-bridge cycle
Breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle (also breakage-rejoining-bridge cycle) is a mechanism of chromosomal instability, discovered by Barbara McClintock in the late 1930s.
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Centromere
The centromere is the specialized DNA sequence of a chromosome that links a pair of sister chromatids (a dyad).
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Cochliomyia
Cochliomyia is a genus in the family Calliphoridae, known as blowflies, in the order Diptera.
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Cochliomyia hominivorax
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screw-worm fly, or screw-worm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.
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Codling moth
The codling moth (Cydia pomonella) is a member of the Lepidopteran family Tortricidae.
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F1 hybrid
An F1 hybrid (or filial 1 hybrid) is the first filial generation of offspring of distinctly different parental types.
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Galleria mellonella
Galleria mellonella, the greater wax moth or honeycomb moth, is a moth of the family Pyralidae.
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Genetically modified insect
A genetically modified (GM) insect is an insect that has been genetically modified, either through mutagenesis, or more precise processes of transgenesis, or cisgenesis.
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Germ cell
A germ cell is any biological cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually.
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Gonocerus acuteangulatus
Gonocerus acuteangulatus is a herbivorous species of true bug in the family Coreidae.
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Hemiptera
The Hemiptera or true bugs are an order of insects comprising some 50,000 to 80,000 species of groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and shield bugs.
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Infertility
Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.
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Kinetochore
A kinetochore is a disc-shaped protein structure, found at the centromere of a chromatid, to which microtubules attach during cell division.
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Large milkweed bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae.
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Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).
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Lygaeidae
The Lygaeidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), with some 60 genera in six subfamilies.
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Meiosis
Meiosis (from Greek μείωσις, meiosis, which means lessening) is a specialized type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell that gave rise to them.
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Metaphase
Metaphase (from the Greek μετά, "adjacent" and φάσις, "stage") is a stage of mitosis in the eukaryotic cell cycle in which chromosomes are at their second-most condensed and coiled stage (they are at their most condensed in anaphase).
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Microtubule
Microtubules are tubular polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton that provides the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and some bacteria with structure and shape.
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Mitosis
In cell biology, mitosis is a part of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.
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Moth
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.
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Mutation
In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.
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Prophase
Prophase (from the Greek πρό, "before" and φάσις, "stage") is the first stage of cell division in both mitosis and meiosis.
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Pyralidae
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea.
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Reduviidae
The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order Hemiptera (true bugs).
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Rhodnius prolixus
Rhodnius prolixus is the principal triatomine vector of the Chagas parasite due to both its sylvatic and domestic populations in northern South America as well as to its exclusively domestic populations in Central America.
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Spider mite
Spider mites are members of the Acari (mite) family Tetranychidae, which includes about 1,200 species.
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Spindle apparatus
In cell biology, the spindle apparatus (or mitotic spindle) refers to the cytoskeletal structure of eukaryotic cells that forms during cell division to separate sister chromatids between daughter cells.
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Sterile insect technique
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild.
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Sterility (physiology)
Sterility is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually.
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Tephritidae
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae.
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Tetranychus urticae
Tetranychus urticae (common names include red spider mite and two-spotted spider mite) is a species of plant-feeding mite generally considered to be a pest.
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Tortricidae
The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera.
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Tsetse fly
Tsetse, sometimes spelled tzetze and also known as tik-tik flies, are large biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa.
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Zygote
A zygote (from Greek ζυγωτός zygōtos "joined" or "yoked", from ζυγοῦν zygoun "to join" or "to yoke") is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherited_sterility_in_insects