Table 1. Gonad development of 5th instar larvae treated with dsRNAs and siRNAs.
Treatment | Females | Haploid Males | ||||||
Number of Embryos | Number of Recovered | Number of Sexual Transformed | Relative Transformation (%) | Number of Embryos | Number of Recovered | Number of Sexual Transformed | Relative Transformation (%) | |
Non-treated | 246 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
mock dsRNA | 87 | 17 | 0 | 0 | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
Mock siRNA | 193 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 509 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
GB11211 dsRNA | 135 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 137 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
GB13727 dsRNA | 226 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
fem siRNA | 545 | 159 | 118 | 74 | 900 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
csd siRNA | 520 | 187 | 164 | 88 | 542 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
GB30480 dsRNA | 206 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
n.p., not performed.