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Multiple origins of pyrethroid insecticide resistance across the species complex of a nontarget aquatic crustacean, Hyalella azteca.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Oct 2013
Weston Donald P, Poynton Helen C, Wellborn Gary A, Lydy Michael J, Blalock Bonnie J, Sepulveda Maria S, Colbourne John K
Abstract excerpt
Use of pesticides can have substantial nonlethal impacts on nontarget species, including driving evolutionary change, often with unknown consequences for species, ecosystems, and society. Hyalella azteca, a species complex of North American freshwater amphipods, is widely used for toxicity testing of water and sediment and has frequently shown toxicity due to pyrethroid pesticides. We demonstrate that 10...
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