Molecular biology and evolution of resistance of toxicants.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025633

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Molecular biology and evolution of resistance of toxicants.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 1996

Taylor M, Feyereisen R

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To the prevailing biochemical/physiological classification of mechanisms of organismal resistance to toxicants, an additional molecular dimension is proposed. Predictions are developed regarding the relative prevalence of different classes of mutations and are found to compare favorably with repo...

Topics

Animal Population Groups
Animals
Bacteria
Drug Resistance
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Evolution, Molecular
Fungi
Mutation
Pesticides
Plants
Sequence Deletion
Toxins, Biological

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