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Impact of small fitness costs on pest adaptation to crop varieties with multiple toxins: a heuristic model.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Dec 2006
Gould Fred, Cohen Michael B, Bentur J S, Kennedy George G, Van Duyn John
Abstract excerpt
A deterministic two-locus model was used to examine how small fitness costs to individuals carrying resistance alleles could impact the risk of panmictic insect pest populations adapting to crop varieties that produced two distinct toxins. Parameters examined were (1) level of toxicity of each toxin, (2) initial frequencies of alleles for adaptation to the toxins, (3) percentage of population feeding on nontoxic...
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