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Resistance to Bacillus sphaericus in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae): interaction between recessive mutants and evolution in southern France.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Sept 2001
Chevillon C, Bernard C, Marquine M, Pasteur N
Abstract excerpt
In southern France, failure to control Culex pipiens L. with Bacillus sphaericus Neide toxin (Bs) was first detected in 1994, at the extreme east of the Languedoc-Roussillon coast. This failure was due to a single recessive mutant, sp-1R. Two complementary strategies were used to test whether sp-1R had invaded the Bs-controlled area by 1998. First, a strain (BP) was selected from resistant larvae sampled in the...
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