Forty years of erratic insecticide resistance evolution in the mosquito Culex pipiens.
One view of adaptation is that it proceeds by the slow and steady accumulation of beneficial mutations with small effects. It is difficult to test this model, since in most cases the genetic basis of adaptation can only be studied a posteriori with traits that have evolved for a long period of time...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2077897?pdf=render |