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Long-Term Resistance of Drosophila melanogaster to the Mushroom Toxin Alpha-Amanitin.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Mitchell Chelsea L, Yeager Roger D, Johnson Zachary J, D'Annunzio Stephanie E, Vogel Kara R, Werner Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Insect resistance to toxins exerts not only a great impact on our economy, but also on the ecology of many species. Resistance to one toxin is often associated with cross-resistance to other, sometimes unrelated, chemicals. In this study, we investigated mushroom toxin resistance in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen). This fruit fly species does not feed on mushrooms in nature and may thus have...
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