Insecticide resistance genes confer predation cost on mosquitoes.

Life Science Weekly | October 26, 2004 | Copyright

2004 OCT 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insecticide resistance genes confer a predation cost on Culex pipiens mosquitoes.

According to a study from France, "Newly occurring adaptive genes, such as those providing insecticide resistance, display a fitness cost which is poorly understood. In order to detect subtle behavioral changes induced by the presence of resistance genes, we used natural predators and compared their differential predation on susceptible and resistant Culex pipiens mosquitoes, using strains with a similar genetic background. Resistance genes ...

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