THE GENETIC, MOLECULAR AND PHENOTYPIC CONSEQUENCES OF SELECTION FOR INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE

Citation
Ja. Mckenzie et P. Batterham, THE GENETIC, MOLECULAR AND PHENOTYPIC CONSEQUENCES OF SELECTION FOR INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE, Trends in ecology & evolution, 9(5), 1994, pp. 166-169
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Genetics & Heredity",Ecology
ISSN journal
01695347
Volume
9
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
166 - 169
Database
ISI
SICI code
0169-5347(1994)9:5<166:TGMAPC>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
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.