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Human-induced evolution caught in action: SNP-array reveals rapid amphi-atlantic spread of pesticide resistance in the salmon ecotoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis.
BMC genomics - 26 Oct 2014
Besnier Francois, Kent Matthew, Skern-Mauritzen Rasmus, Lien Sigbjørn, Malde Ketil, Edvardsen Rolf B, Taylor Simon, Ljungfeldt Lina E R, Nilsen Frank, Glover Kevin A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, is an ectoparasite of salmonids that causes huge economic losses in salmon farming, and has also been causatively linked with declines of wild salmonid populations. Lice control on farms is reliant upon a few groups of pesticides that have all shown time-limited efficiency due to resistance development. However, to date, this example of human-induced...
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