Fitness costs of insecticide resistance in natural breeding sites of the mosquito Culex pipiens.

doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01579.x

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Fitness costs of insecticide resistance in natural breeding sites of the mosquito Culex pipiens.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2004

Bourguet Denis, Guillemaud Thomas, Chevillon Christine, Raymond Michel

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Genetic changes conferring adaptation to a new environment may induce a fitness cost in the previous environment. Although this prediction has been verified in laboratory conditions, few studies have tried to document this cost directly in natural populations. Here, we evaluated the pleiotropic effects of insecticide resistance on putative fitness components of the mosquito Culex pipiens. Experiments using...

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Acetylcholinesterase
Alleles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Body Weights and Measures
Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
Culex
Insecticide Resistance
Larva
Selection, Genetic
Serine Endopeptidases
Time Factors
Wings, Animal

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PMID: 15058725
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01579.x

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