First case of successful eradication of the sweet potato weevil, Cylas formicarius (Fabricius), using the sterile insect technique

• Chihiro Himuro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: chimurochimuro@gmail.com (CH); hrguchid@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (DH)

  Affiliations Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Ryukyu Sankei Co., Ltd, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0081-3998

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• Tsuguo Kohama ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TK, TM, YS, FK and DH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Takashi Matsuyama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, Itoman, Okinawa, Japan

  ¶‡ TK, TM, YS, FK and DH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Yasutsune Sadoyama ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TK, TM, YS, FK and DH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Futoshi Kawamura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TK, TM, YS, FK and DH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Atsushi Honma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Ryukyu Sankei Co., Ltd, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

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• Yusuke Ikegawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Ryukyu Sankei Co., Ltd, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

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• Dai Haraguchi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chihiro Himuro, Takashi Matsuyama, Futoshi Kawamura, Atsushi Honma, Yusuke Ikegawa, Dai Haraguchi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chimurochimuro@gmail.com (CH); hrguchid@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (DH)

  ¶‡ TK, TM, YS, FK and DH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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