A new mechanism conferring unprecedented high resistance to chlorpyrifos in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae).
The cause of high resistance to chlorpyrifos observed in Tunisian Culex pipiens (L.) was investigated by comparing a Tunisian strain G (> 10,000-fold resistance), a French strain T (approximately 50-fold resistance), and a susceptible reference strain S. Strains G and T had the same level of propoxur resistance (approximately 1,000-fold) and were homozygous for an autosomal propoux-insensitive acetylcholinesterase (AChE-1). In G and T strains, as well as in the offspring of different F1s and backcrosses using these F1s and the S strain, the effect of DEF and Pb synergists on chlorpyrifos resistance was low or absent, indicating that increased detoxification by enzymes inhibited by these chemicals had a minor role. Chlorpyrifos resistance in the G strain was caused by a major gene (or group of genes) tightly linked to the Ace-1 gene (coding AChE-1 enzyme). The possibility of allelism between this gene and the Ace-1R allele present in the T strain was rejected by showing that AChE-1 inhibition by chlorpyrifos-oxon was not different between G and T mosquitoes.
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Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université de Montpellier 2, France.
Marquine
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Ben Cheikh
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Bernard
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Bourguet
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D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D004390:Chlorpyrifos; D003465:Culex / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D005602:France; D007305:Insecticide Resistance; D010641:Phenotype; D001074:Propoxur / Q000633:toxicity; D013045:Species Specificity
D001074:Propoxur; D000110:Acetylcholinesterase; D004390:Chlorpyrifos