Interactions between Pesticide Genes: Model and Experiment
AUTOR(ES)
Raymond, M.
RESUMO
In response to years of intense selection pressure by organophosphate insecticides, several different insecticide resistance mechanisms have evolved in natural populations of the mosquito Culex pipiens. We examined interactions between two of the most important mechanisms using a four-compartment model of insecticide pharmacokinetics. The joint effect of different mechanisms of resistance can be expressed in terms of epistasis at the physiological level in this model. The type of epistasis predicted by the model depends on the particular physiological mechanisms of resistance involved. Resistance due to a reduced penetration of the insecticide combines multiplicatively with other resistance factors, but resistance due to detoxicative processes and to insensitivity of the target site combines additively. How the pattern of epistasis at the physiological level is translated into fitness epistasis in natural populations of this mosquito depends on the intensity and pattern of insecticide selection in the field.
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