Shifting focus from the population to the individual as a way forward in understanding, predicting and managing the complexities of evolution of resistance to pesticides.
The evolution of resistance to pesticides is often conceptualised and modelled at a population level, but population-based approaches ignore important aspects of variability between individuals within populations that may be essential drivers of resistance. Here it is argued that individual-based modelling has the potential to generate new insights and perspectives, thus deepening our understanding of the complexities of the evolutionary dynamics of resistance to pesticides.
School of Plant Biology, Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia. michael.renton@uwa.edu.au
Michael
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Renton
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004351:Drug Resistance; D007313:Insecta / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010575:Pesticides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D057685:Plant Weeds / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics
D010575:Pesticides