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July 28, 2015

Fighting mosquito resistance to insecticides
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Jul 28, 2015
Controlling mosquitoes that carry human diseases is a global health challenge as their ability to resist insecticides now threatens efforts to prevent epidemics. Scientists from the CNRS, IRD, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble and Institut Pasteur in French Guiana have identified new genetic markers for mosquito resistance to insecticides, which could improve its detection in the field. This work was published in Genome Research on 23 July 2015. The ability of ... read more

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