Links numbers are those that appear in the Science article. Links with no numbers are additional sources of information that may be useful.
DARPA
1. Broad Agency Announcement Insect Allies, Biological Technologies Office, HR001117S0002, 1 November 2016; www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=40638c9e7d45ed8310f9d4f 4671b4a7b.
External link, Cached file
6. DARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply & Commodity Crops. R&D Mag. (2016); www.rdmag.com/ news/2016/10/darpa-enlists-insects-protect-agricul- tural-food-supply-commodity-crops.
External link, Cached file
8. Dr. Blake Bextine, Insect Allies; www.darpa.mil/program/insect-allies.
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12. DARPA:Safe Genes; www.darpa.mil/program/safe-genes.
External link, Cached file
13. DARPA:Young Faculty Awards 2017; www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities/young-faculty-award.
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15. J. W. Schoen, Pentagon kills ‘terror futures market.’ msnbc.com (2003); www.nbcnews.com/id/3072985/t/ pentagon-kills-terror-futures-market/.
Polston Lab ‘Recruits’ Insects as Allies for Plants in Food Security Project Available online: http://southeastagnet.com/2018/10/02/polston-lab-recruits-insects-allies-plants-food-security-project/ (accessed on Oct 3, 2018).
Academic consortia / press releases
2. BTI receives DARPA “Insect Allies” Award. EurekAlert! (2017); www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/bti- brd072717.php
3. Penn State team receives $7M award to enlist insects as allies for food security (2017); http://news.psu.edu/ story/495037/2017/11/20/research/penn-state-team- receives-7m-award-enlist-insects-allies-food.
External link, Cached file
4. Ohio State scientists make plant virus system “turn on
its head” with insect research (2017); www.thelantern.
com/2017/12/ohio-state-scientists-to-make-plant-virus-
system-turn-on-its-head-with-insect-research/.
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5. Insect Allies: How the Enemies of Corn May Someday Save It (2017); https://cals.ncsu.edu/news/insect-allies-how- the-enemies-of-corn-may-someday-save-it/.
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Science sources
7. J. S. Cory et al., Nature 370, 138 (1994).
Lab confined
10. Z. Ali et al., Mol. Plant. 8, 1288 (2015).
11. K. Musiychuk et al., Influenza Other Respir. Viruses. 1, 19
Legal sources
14. United States of America, Strengthening of the BWC,Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on
the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva (2018); http:// undocs.org/en/BWC/MSP/2018/MX.5/WP.3.
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9. Report of the Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva (2012); http://undocs.org/en/BWC/MSP/2012/5.
ENMOD Convention
http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/bwc/text
Bioweapons Convention
http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/bwc
Silja Voeneky, Biosecurity - Freedom, Responsibility and Legitimacy, Ordnung der Wissenschaft, 2/2014, 117-128
Silja Voeneky, Ruediger Wolfrum, Environment, Protection in Armed Conflict, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford 2012, Vol. III, 509-518, www.mpepil.com