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Insecticide resistance is an increasingly serious problem for the control of medically and agriculturally important pests. More than 447 species of arthropods have evolved resistance to one or more pesticides; some 17 species have shown resistance to all five major classes of insecticides often outstripping the rate at which new pesticides (or even non-pesticidal controls) can be introduced to replace them (Georghiou 1986). Insecticide resistance is also a dramatic example of adaptation at the molecular level. The majority of cases of practically significant resistance in the field are due to single major genes (Roush & McKenzie 1987, Roush and Daly 1990), that either increase the metabolism of pesticides or cause insensitivity in the target site (Soderlund &Bloomquist 1990).
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ffrench-Constant, R.H., Roush, R.T., MacIntyre, R.J. (1990). Isolation, Characterization and Progress in Cloning of Cyclodiene Insecticide Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster . In: Hagedorn, H.H., Hildebrand, J.G., Kidwell, M.G., Law, J.H. (eds) Molecular Insect Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3668-4_5
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