Gene silencing for invasive paper wasp management: Synthesized dsRNA can modify gene expression but did not affect mortality

• Mariana Bulgarella ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariana Bulgarella, James W. Baty

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Mariana.Bulgarella@vuw.ac.nz

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-8529

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• James W. Baty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariana Bulgarella, James W. Baty

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

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Rose McGruddy,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Philip J. Lester

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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