Abstract |
The insecticide fenthion, which shows great promise for controlling the filariasis vector Culex pipiens fatigans, has been found in the laboratory to induce a certain amount of resistance. As the biochemical nature of fenthion resistance was known to be due to an increase in a particular esterase activity, the inheritance of the character was investigated in the present study. It was found to be mainly due to a single slightly recessive gene associated with linkage-group 2, and the increase in detoxifying esterase activity showed a similar inheritance.
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Authors | C Dorval, A W Brown |
Journal | Bulletin of the World Health Organization
(Bull World Health Organ)
Vol. 43
Issue 5
Pg. 727-34
( 1970)
ISSN: 0042-9686 [Print] Switzerland |
PMID | 5313263
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Chemical References |
- Insecticides
- Phosphoric Acids
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Topics |
- Animals
- Culex
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetics
- Insecticide Resistance
- Insecticides
- Phosphoric Acids
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