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High Resistance to<i>Bacillus sphaericus</i>Binary Toxin in<i>Culex pipiens</i>(Diptera: Culicidae): The Complex Situation of West Mediterranean Countries
1 Sept 2002
Abstract excerpt
This study was aimed at clarifying the nature of the resistance to Bacillus sphaericus Neide (Bs) that Culex pipiens L. has developed in west Mediterranean countries, France, and Tunisia. Two recessive and sex-linked mutants, sp-1R and sp-2R, were previously detected in southern France. Here, the Tunisian resistance was also shown to involve a single recessive and sex-linked gene that was temporarily named...
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