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Correlation between carboxylesterase alleles and insecticide resistance in Culex pipiens complex from China.
Parasites & vectors - 19 Dec 2011
Liu Yangyang, Zhang Hanying, Qiao Chuanling, Lu Xiping, Cui Feng
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BACKGROUND: In China, large amounts of chemical insecticides are applied in fields or indoors every year, directly or indirectly bringing selection pressure on vector mosquitoes. Culex pipiens complex has evolved to be resistant to all types of chemical insecticides, especially organophosphates, through carboxylesterases. Six resistant carboxylesterase alleles (Ester) were recorded previously and sometimes...
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