Article
Sodium channel gene expression associated with pyrethroid resistant house flies and German cockroaches.
Gene - 1 Sept 2006
Xu Qiang, Wang Haichuan, Zhang Lee, Liu Nannan
Abstract excerpt
The voltage-gated sodium channels of the insect nervous system are the primary target of DDT and pyrethroid insecticides. The loss of target site sensitivity to insecticides resulting from a substitution of leucine to phenylalanine, termed the L-to-F kdr mutation, in the sodium channel of the insect nervous system is known to be important in insecticide resistance. Yet, little is known about the molecular basis...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Cockroaches
- Culex
- DNA
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Houseflies
- Insect Proteins
- Insecticide Resistance
- Insecticides
- Leucine
- Male
- Mutation
- Phenylalanine
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Pyrethrins
