Reproductive sterility based on
lethality systems serves as an
intrinsic containment against
vertical transmission of transgenes in
biotechnologically engineered SIT and
its application does, therefore, not
present real concerns with respect to
humans or the environment [13].
However, transgenic SIT is still at its
very beginnings and its large scale
use may be somewhat premature,
especially as it might impinge on the
future use of this technology due to
possible development of resistance
[16]. Despite the fact that SIT
approaches have shown to be very
successful for agricultural insect