Our paper on Lucilia gene promoters that are active in early embryos and proapoptotic genes has now ben published online in the early view section of Insect Molecular Biology. These are the building blocks that are needed to assemble transgenic embryonic sexing strains. the paper. Full details:
Edman, R.M., Linger, R.J., Belikoff, E.J., Li, F., Sze, S.-H., Tarone, A.M. and Scott, M.J. (2014) Functional characterization of calliphorid cell death genes and cellularization gene promoters for controlling gene expression and cell viability in early embryos. Insect Molecular Biology, in press. doi: 10.1111/imb.12135