Selected Review Articles, Comments, Patent, and Book Chapters:

Selected Review Articles, Comments, Patent, and Book Chapters:

Schetelig, M.F., & Wimmer, E. A. (in press). Insect Trangenesis and the Sterile Insect Technique. In “Insect Biotechnology” (ed. Andreas Vilcinskas). Springer Verlag.


Wimmer, E. A. (2010, Nachdruck). Genetik der embryonalen Musterbildung. In "Lehrbuch der Entomologie, 2. Auflage" (eds. Dettner, K. & Peters, W.), pp. 420-437. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg.


Catteruccia, F., Crisanti, A. & Wimmer, E. A. (2009). Transgenic technologies to induce sterility. Malaria Journal, 8 (Suppl. 2), S7.


Brown, S.J., Shippy, T.D., Miller, S., Bolognesi, R., Beeman, R.W., Lorenzen, M.D., Bucher, G., Wimmer, E. A. & Klingler, M. (2009) . The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera): a model for studies of development and pest biology. In “Emerging Model Organisms”, CSH Protoc. doi:10.1101/pdb.emo126.


Scolari, F., Schetelig, M.F., Gabrieli, P., Siciliano, P., Gomulski, L.M., Karam, N., Wimmer, E. A. Malacrida, A.R. & Gasperi, G. (2008) ,. Insect transgenesis applied to tephritid pest control. J. Appl. Entomol. 132, 820-831.


Schetelig, M.F., Scolari, F., Handler, A.M., Gasperi, G. & Wimmer, E. A. (2008). New genetic tools for improving SIT in Ceratitis capitata: embryonic lethality and sperm marking. In “Fruit Flies of Economic Importance: From Basic to Applied Knowledge” (eds. Sugayam, R.L., Zucchi, R.A., Ovruski, S.M., Sivinski, J.), pp 299-305. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance. 10-15 September 2006, Salvador, Brazil. SBPC, Brazil.


Schetelig, M.F., Horn, C., Handler, A.M. & Wimmer, E. A. (2007). Development of an embryonic lethality system for transgenic SIT in the fruit pest Ceratitis capitata. In “Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation” (eds. Vreysen, M.J.B., Robinson A.S., Hendrichs, J.), pp. 85-93. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.


Bucher, G. & Wimmer, E. A. (2005). Beetle a-head. B.I.F. Futura 20, 164-169.


Wimmer, E. A. (2005). Insect transgenesis by site-specific recombination. Nature Methods 2, 580-582.


Wimmer, E. A. (2005). Eco-friendly insect management. Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 432-433.
Horn, C., Offen, N. & Wimmer, E. A. (2004). piggyBac-based transposon mutagenesis and enhancer trapping as a tool for functional insect genomics. In “Proceedings of the 6th International Fruit Fly Symposium” (ed. Barnes, B.N.), pp. 419-425. Isteg Scientific Publicatons, Irene, South Africa.


Schmidt-Ott, U. & Wimmer, E. A. (2004). Starting the segmentation gene cascade in insects. In "Modularity in Development and Evolution" (eds. Schlosser, G. & Wagner, G.P.), pp. 395-412. Chicago University Press, Chicago.


Wimmer, E. A. (2003). Applications of Insect Transgenesis. Nature Reviews Genetics 4, 225-232.


Wimmer, E. A. , Berghammer, A.J. & Klingler, M. (2003) . Universal Markers of Transgenesis.
United States Patent No. 6,518,481 B1, issued February 11th, 2003.


Horn, C., Schmid, B.G.M., Pogoda, F.S. & Wimmer, E. A. (2002). Fluorescent transformation markers for insect transgenesis. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32, 1221-1235.


Wimmer, E. A. (2001). Identifizierung transgener Insekten. Spektrum 2/01, 40-41. Universität Bayreuth.


Wimmer, E. A. & Desplan, C. (1999) . Bicoid. In "The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology"
(ed. Creighton, T.) Vol.1, pp. 276-279. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.


Wimmer, E. A. & Desplan, C. (1998) . bicoid outside the Dipterans? Trends Genet. 14, 489.