Challenges in estimating insecticide selection pressures from mosquito field data.

Insecticide resistance has the potential to compromise the enormous effort put into the control of dengue and malaria vector populations. It is therefore important to quantify the amount of selection acting on resistance alleles, their contributions to fitness in heterozygotes (dominance) and their...

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Main Authors: Susana Barbosa, William C Black, Ian Hastings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-11-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206009?pdf=render