Fitness costs associated with insecticide resistance.

Volume: 68, Issue: 11, Pages: 1431 - 1437
Published: Nov 1, 2012
Abstract
Insects are exposed to a variety of stress factors in their environment, and, in many cases for insect pests to agriculture, those factors include toxic chemical insecticides. Coping with the toxicity of insecticides can be costly and requires energy and resource allocation for adaptation and survival. Several behavioural, physiological and genetic mechanisms are used by insects to handle toxic insecticides, sometimes leading to resistance by...
Paper Details
Title
Fitness costs associated with insecticide resistance.
Published Date
Nov 1, 2012
Volume
68
Issue
11
Pages
1431 - 1437
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