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Acetylcholinesterase alterations reveal the fitness cost of mutations conferring insecticide resistance.
BMC evolutionary biology - 6 Feb 2004
Shi Ming An, Lougarre Andrée, Alies Carole, Frémaux Isabelle, Tang Zhen Hua, Stojan Jure, Fournier Didier
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BACKGROUND: Insecticide resistance is now common in insects due to the frequent use of chemicals to control them, which provides a useful tool to study the adaptation of eukaryotic genome to new environments. Although numerous potential mutations may provide high level of resistance, only few alleles are found in insect natural populations. Then, we hypothesized that only alleles linked to the highest fitness in...
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