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Landscape genomics of Colorado potato beetle provides evidence of polygenic adaptation to insecticides.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2017
Crossley Michael S, Chen Yolanda H, Groves Russell L, Schoville Sean D
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The ability of insect pests to rapidly and repeatedly adapt to insecticides has long challenged entomologists and evolutionary biologists. Since Crow's seminal paper on insecticide resistance in 1957, new data and insights continue to emerge that are relevant to the old questions about how insecticide resistance evolves: such as whether it is predominantly mono- or polygenic, and evolving from standing vs. de...
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