Gamma radiation of Drosophila suzukii under hypoxia and normoxia atmosphere conditions. v1
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Abstract
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environmentally friendly control tactic based on the sequential, inundative releases of sterile insects in a targeted area. Recently, this technique has been suggested as a potential complementary control method as part of an area-wide insect pest management program (AW-IPM) against D. suzukii. One of the key issues for the SIT application is to determine the radiation dose since the doses used to induce reproductive sterility can vary between sexes and among species. Treating insects with a lower oxygen atmosphere before and during exposure to radiation can mitigate some of the negative physiological effects due to the irradiation. The irradiation of pupae under the oxygen-reduced environments such as hypoxia is routinely used in the SIT operational programs of some tephritid species as it provides radiological protection. This treatment allows to have the sterile pupae already in sealed containers to facilitate their shipment. Therefore, it is crucial to study the effects of irradiation on the reproductive sterility in D. suzukii males and females under low-oxygen atmosphere (hypoxia) compare to normal oxygen level conditions (normoxia). This protocol describes step-by-step the irradiation of D. suzukii pupae under hypoxia and normoxia atmosphere conditions. This protocol may be utilized for a further assessment concerning the quality of the sterile versus non-sterile D. suzukii adults such as laboratory and/or field behavioral studies. Additionally, the description of the hypoxia treatment in this protocol may allow for the evaluation of the handling and release processes of the sterile males. The adoption of this protocol by different laboratories should increase further studies for the applicability of SIT on D. suzukii or for continuing assessments to improve SIT technology and decrease the variability in data between different studies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".