Listar por autor "Mathiopoulos, K. D."
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Altered GPI modification of insect AChE improves tolerance to organophosphate insecticides
Kakani, E. G.; Bon, S.; Massoulie, J.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2011)The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae is the most destructive and intractable pest of olives. The management of B. oleae has been based on the use of organophosphate (OP) insecticides, a practice that induced resistance. ... -
Analysis of olive fly invasion in California based on microsatellite markers
Zygouridis, N. E.; Augustinos, A. A.; Zalom, F. G.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2009)The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the main pest of the olive fruit and its expansion is exclusively restricted to the cultivation zone of the olive tree. Even though olive production has a century-old history in ... -
Detection and geographical distribution of the organophosphate resistance-associated Delta 3Q ace mutation in the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)
Kakani, E. G.; Sagri, E.; Omirou, M.; Ioannides, I. M.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2014)BACKGROUND The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is the most important pest of olives. Its control is based mostly on organophosphate (OP) insecticides, a practice that has led to resistance ... -
Genetic changes during laboratory domestication of an olive fly SIT strain
Zygouridis, N. E.; Argov, Y.; Nemny-Lavy, E.; Augustinos, A. A.; Nestel, D.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2014)Early attempts to apply the SIT on the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, were unsuccessful, mainly due to the low competitiveness of the sterile mass-reared males compared with the wild ones. Recently, new efforts are underway ... -
Genome size estimation with quantitative real-time PCR in two Tephritidae species: Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera oleae
Tsoumani, K. T.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2012)The medfly Ceratitis capitata and the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae belong to the Tephritidae family of Diptera, a family whose members cause severe damages in agriculture worldwide. For such insect pests, the utmost ... -
Genomic structure, organization and localization of the acetylcholinesterase locus of the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae
Kakani, E. G.; Trakala, M.; Drosopoulou, E.; Mavragani-Tsipidou, P.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2013)Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), encoded by the ace gene, is a key enzyme of cholinergic neurotransmission. Insensitive acetylcholinesterase (AChE) has been shown to be responsible for resistance to OPs and CBs in a number of ... -
Insecticide resistance in Tephritid flies
Vontas, J.; Hernandez-Crespo, P.; Margaritopoulos, J. T.; Ortego, F.; Feng, H. T.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Hsu, J. C. (2011)Tephritid flies attack a large variety of fruits, which constitute highly-priced commodities in many countries. Insecticides have been used extensively for their control. Although resistance development in fruit flies has ... -
An integrated genetic and cytogenetic map for the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, based on microsatellite and morphological markers
Stratikopoulos, E. E.; Augustinos, A. A.; Petalas, Y. G.; Vrahatis, M. N.; Mintzas, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Zacharopoulou, A. (2008)A genetic map based on microsatellite polymorphisms and visible mutations of the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata is presented. Genotyping was performed on single flies from several backcross families. ... -
Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata: cross-species amplification in other Tephritidae species reveals a varying degree of transferability
Stratikopoulos, E. E.; Augustinos, A. A.; Pavlopoulos, I. D.; Economou, K. P.; Mintzas, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Zacharopoulou, A. (2009)The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, is a pest of major economic importance and has become a model for the development of SIT control programs for insect pests. Significant information has been accumulated on ... -
Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, and their cross-species amplification in the Tephritidae family
Augustinos, A. A.; Stratikopoulos, E. E.; Drosopoulou, E.; Kakani, E. G.; Mavragani-Tsipidou, P.; Zacharopoulou, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2008)Background: The Tephritidae family of insects includes the most important agricultural pests of fruits and vegetables, belonging mainly to four genera (Bactrocera, Ceratitis, Anastrepha and Rhagoletis). The olive fruit ... -
Isolation, annotation and applications of expressed sequence tags from the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae
Tsoumani, K. T.; Augustinos, A. A.; Kakani, E. G.; Drosopoulou, E.; Mavragani-Tsipidou, P.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2011)The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the major pest of the olive tree. Despite its importance, very little genetic and molecular knowledge is available. The present study is a first attempt to identify and characterize ... -
Microsatellite analysis of olive fly populations in the mediterranean indicates a westward expansion of the species
Augustinos, A. A.; Mamuris, Z.; Stratikopoulos, E.; D'Amelio, S.; Zacharopoulou, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2005)Bactrocera oleae is the major insect pest of the olive fruit. Twelve microsatellite loci isolated from the genome of this insect were used in a Mediterranean-wide population analysis. These loci were highly polymorphic ... -
The molecular biology of the olive fly comes of age
Sagri, E.; Reczko, M.; Tsoumani, K. T.; Gregoriou, M. E.; Harokopos, V.; Mavridou, A. M.; Tastsoglou, S.; Athanasiadis, K.; Ragoussis, J.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2014)Background: Olive cultivation blends with the history of the Mediterranean countries since ancient times. Even today, activities around the olive tree constitute major engagements of several people in the countryside of ... -
Molecular Characterization and Chromosomal Distribution of a Species-Specific Transcribed Centromeric Satellite Repeat from the Olive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera oleae
Tsoumani, K. T.; Drosopoulou, E.; Mavragani-Tsipidou, P.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2013)Satellite repetitive sequences that accumulate in the heterochromatin consist a large fraction of a genome and due to their properties are suggested to be implicated in centromere function. Current knowledge of heterochromatic ... -
Molecular detection of the entomopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas entomophila using PCR
Papagiannoulis, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Mossialos, D. (2010)Aims: To develop a specific, fast and simple molecular method useful to detect the entomopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas entomophila. Methods and Results: The use of bioinformatics tools allowed the identification of ... -
Olive fly transcriptomics analysis implicates energy metabolism genes in spinosad resistance
Sagri, E.; Reczko, M.; Gregoriou, M. E.; Tsoumani, K. T.; Zygouridis, N. E.; Salpea, K. D.; Zalom, F. G.; Ragoussis, J.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2014)Background: The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most devastating pest of cultivated olives. Its control has been traditionally based on insecticides, mainly organophosphates and pyrethroids. In recent years, the ... -
Organophosphate resistance in olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, populations in Greece and Cyprus
Skouras, P. J.; Margaritopoulos, J. T.; Seraphides, N. A.; Ioannides, I. M.; Kakani, E. G.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Atsitsipis, J. (2007)The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the most important pest of olives in countries around the Mediterranean basin. Its control has been based mostly on bait sprays with organophosphate ... -
Organophosphosphate resistance-related mutations in the acetylcholinesterase gene of Tephritidae
Kakani, E. G.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2008)Tephritid insects comprise one of the most devastating families of insect pests worldwide. Organophosphate insecticides have been extensively used for their control during the last 40 years. Inevitably, this has led to the ... -
Polymorphic microsatellite markers in the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae
Augustinos, A. A.; Stratikopoulos, E. E.; Zacharopoulou, A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2002)Bactrocera oleae is the single most important insect pest of the olive fruit, causing extensive of the losses in the olive production annually. Nonetheless, there has never been an analysis of the homogeneity of B. oleae ... -
A small deletion in the olive fly acetylcholinesterase gene associated with high levels of organophosphate resistance
Kakani, E. G.; Ioannides, I. M.; Margaritopoulos, J. T.; Seraphides, N. A.; Skouras, P. J.; Tsitsipis, J. A.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2008)Organophosphate resistance in the olive fly was previously shown to associate with two point mutations in the ace gene. The frequency of these mutations was monitored in Bactrocera oleae individuals of increasing resistance. ...