Table 1.
Summary of the earliest successful transformation of insect species using piggyBac. Modified from Morrison et al. (2010)
| Family | Species name(s) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Mosquitoes | ||
| Culicidae | Yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti | (Kokoza et al., 2001) |
| Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus | (Labbé et al., 2010) | |
| Aedes fluviatilis | (Rodrigues et al., 2006) | |
| New World malaria mosquito, Anopheles albimanus | (Perera et al., 2002) | |
| African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae | (Grossman et al., 2001) | |
| Indo‐Pakistan malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi | (Ito et al., 2002; Nolan et al., 2002) | |
| Fruit flies | ||
| Drosophilidae | Common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster | (Handler & Harrell, 1999) |
| Spotted‐wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii | (Schetelig et al., 2013) | |
| Tephritidae | Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens | (Condon et al., 2007) |
| Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa | (Handler & Harrell, 2001b) | |
| Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis | (Handler et al., 1998) | |
| Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni | (Raphael et al., 2011) | |
| Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata | (Handler et al., 1998) | |
| Other Diptera (pest, myiasis, biting flies) | ||
| Muscidae | Housefly, Musca domestica | (Hediger et al., 2001) |
| Calliphoridae | Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina | (Heinrich et al., 2002) |
| New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax | (Allen et al., 2004) | |
| Diopsidae | Stalk‐eyed flies, Teleopsis dalmanni | (Warren et al., 2010) |
| Wasps, bees and ants | ||
| Hymenoptera | Sawfly, Athalia rosae | (Sumitani et al., 2003) |
| Honeybee, Apis mellifera | Schulte et al., 2014 | |
| Beetles | ||
| Coccinellidae | Harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis | (Kuwayama et al., 2006) |
| Tenebrionidae | Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum | (Berghammer et al., 1999) |
| Butterflies and moths | ||
| Nymphalidae | Squinting bush brown butterfly, Bicyclus anynana | (Marcus et al., 2004) |
| Gelechiidae | Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella | (Peloquin et al., 2000) |
| Bombycidae | Silkworm, Bombyx mori | (Tamura et al., 2000) |
| Plutellidae | Diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella | (Martins et al., 2012) |
| Crambidae | Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis | (Liu et al., 2012) |
| Tortricidae | Codling moth, Cydia pomonella | (Ferguson et al., 2011) |