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Studies of insecticide resistance allow theories of the adaptive proce
ss to be tested where the selective agent, the insecticide, is unambig
uously defined. Thus, the consequences of selection of phenotypic vari
ation can be investigated in genetic, biochemical, molecular, populati
on biological and, most recently, developmental contexts. Are the opti
ons limited biochemically and molecularly? Is the genetic mechanism mo
nogenic or polygenic, general or population/species specific? Are fitn
ess and developmental patterns associated? These questions of general
evolutionary significance can be considered with experimental approach
es to determine how insecticide resistance evolves.