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Energetic cost of insecticide resistance in Culex pipiens mosquitoes.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 May 2011
Rivero A, Magaud A, Nicot A, Vézilier J
Abstract excerpt
The extensive use of insecticides to control vector populations has lead to the widespread development of different mechanisms of insecticide resistance. Mutations that confer insecticide resistance are often associated to fitness costs that prevent them from spreading to fixation. In vectors, such fitness costs include reductions in preimaginal survival, adult size, longevity, and fecundity. The most commonly...
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