Other factors such as shipping to the target program location and handling of irradiated pupae may also reduce the quality of flies.
Authors in (Theofanis et al., 2014) have proposed a water quality monitoring system for in-pipe monitoring and assessment of water quality on fly.
"Trout Stream," an abstraction of rusted iron rods by Pauli Suominen, takes advantage of the metal's flexibility to indicate both the flow of water and the springy quality of a fly rod.
These alternative approaches would have reduced impact on the quality of the fly as irradiation is not performed, which has been shown to impact courtship behavior.
Also, it will cut your fingers! - The overall quality of your fly is going to depend on the quality of your material.
The hypothesis is that through long-term mass rearing, selection, and irradiation, there will be consistent changes in expression patterns in Vienna-7 derived flies that are indicative of reduced quality of these flies when compared to their wild counterparts.
Overall, the analysis presented here provides the foundation for beginning to evaluate mass reared flies at a genomic level, and to develop tools for better monitoring the quality of these flies over generations of colony production.
Relative damages estimated by DeCAT show the improvement of quality of shotcrete with fly ash of class 1. Distribution on the normalized AE activity derives a clear deference between shotcrete and ordinary concrete.
This data can be used for generation of new hypotheses regarding different aspects on the biology of this important pest as well as a resource for developing assays for assessing the quality of mass reared flies.
