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Persistence of a sugar-rejecting cockroach genotype under various dietary regimes.
Scientific reports - 13 Apr 2017
Jensen Kim, Wada-Katsumata Ayako, Schal Coby, Silverman Jules
Abstract excerpt
Glucose-aversion is a heritable trait that evolved in a number of German cockroach (Blattella germanica L.) populations in response to strong selection with glucose-containing insecticide baits. However, in the absence of glucose-containing bait, glucose-averse (GA) cockroaches have lower performance than wild-type (WT) cockroaches in several fitness-determining traits. We allocated 48 caged populations initiated...
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