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Forty years of erratic insecticide resistance evolution in the mosquito Culex pipiens.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2007
Labbé Pierrick, Berticat Claire, Berthomieu Arnaud, Unal Sandra, Bernard Clothilde, Weill Mylène, Lenormand Thomas
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One view of adaptation is that it proceeds by the slow and steady accumulation of beneficial mutations with small effects. It is difficult to test this model, since in most cases the genetic basis of adaptation can only be studied a posteriori with traits that have evolved for a long period of time through an unknown sequence of steps. In this paper, we show how ace-1, a gene involved in resistance to...
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