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Linkage of pyrethroid insecticide resistance to a sodium channel locus in the tobacco budworm.
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology - 1 Oct 1993
Taylor M F, Heckel D G, Brown T M, Kreitman M E, Black B
Abstract excerpt
Pyrethroids, with their lack of persistence and low mammalian toxicity, have been important insecticides since the early 1970s. However, heavy use has selected for resistance to pyrethroids in populations of many insects, in particular the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens, a major cotton pest in the Americas. Several studies have identified the voltage-gated sodium channel as the principal target of pyrethroid...
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