The Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, is the most important economic insect pest for the sheep industries in Australia and New Zealand. piggyBac-mediated germ-line transformation of L. cuprina was achieved with a helper plasmid that had the Drosophila melanogaster hsp70 promoter controlling expression of the transposase and a piggyBac vector with an EGFP marker gene. Two transformant lines were obtained, at a frequency of approximately 1-2% per fertile G0. One of these lines has a single copy of the transgene, the other most likely has four copies. This is the first report of germ-line transformation of L. cuprina and is an important step towards the generation of engineered strains that would be suitable for male-only release eradication/suppression programmes.
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