title: Insecticide resistance genes in mosquitoes: their mutations, migration, and selection in field populations.
abstract: Insecticides have been used intensively to control insect populations over the last 50 years and many species of insects have developed resistance to several families of insecticides. These resistances are mainly due to two mechanisms: mutation of the insecticide target protein (leading to a decrease in its affinity for the concerned insecticide family), and increased detoxification. Recent molecular studies suggest that the mutations conferring resistance are rare and sometimes unique events in any given species. The wide geographic distribution of some of these genes can then only be explained by the balance between migration and selection at the population level.
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (URA CNRS 327), Génétique et Environnement, Université de Montpellier-2, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pasteur
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raymond
mesh_terms: D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D018118:Chloride Channels / Q000235:genetics; D003465:Culex / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D009033:Culicidae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D015195:Drug Design; D004950:Esterases / Q000235:genetics; D008658:Inactivation, Metabolic / Q000235:genetics; D007305:Insecticide Resistance / Q000235:genetics*; D007306:Insecticides / Q000633:toxicity*; D009154:Mutation; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012641:Selection, Genetic
chemical_list: D018118:Chloride Channels; D007306:Insecticides; D004950:Esterases; D000110:Acetylcholinesterase