Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 23, 2026

Delivery of Nucleic Acids through Embryo Microinjection in the Worldwide Agricultural Pest Insect, Ceratitis capitata
Published on: October 1, 2016
Mariner: its prospects as a DNA vector for the genetic manipulation of medically important insects
1Molecular Biology Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK L3 5QA.
Abstract:
Originally described in Drosophila mauritiana, the mariner transposable element has very recently been identified in 63 other insect species, representing ten insect orders, and including the malaria-vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Ann Warren and Julian Crampton here discuss how transposable elements can be exploited as valuable research tools for the molecular characterization of genomes and as DNA vectors for genome manipulation and the 'creation' of transgenic organisms.

