RNAi in the cereal weevil Sitophilusspp: Systemic gene knockdown in the bacteriome tissue

BMC Biotechnology

Table 2 Percentage of adult emergence of weevil embryos raised within GPF

	Number of embryos per experiment	% of adult emergence	Development time (days)*
Experiment 1	41	34.1	37
Experiment 2	38	36.8	38
Experiment 3	42	33.9	38
Average		33.9	37.7 ± 0.74

* The natural development time from the embryo to the adult of symbiotic weevils (at 27.5°C and 70 rh) is arround 30 days.

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