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MEDFLY

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MEDFLYMediterranean Fruit Fly


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Chief deputy since 1999, Robert Atkins was the first agricultural official to detect a Mediterranean fruit fly, or Medfly, in California - at Venice in 1975 - and subsequently managed the fruit-fly detection and pest-prevention programs from 1981 through 1992.
First, the researchers isolated genes analogous to Or83b from three other species: the medfly (Ceratitis capitata), a mosquito (Anopheles gambiae), and a moth (Helicoverpa zea).
 
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