A genomic amplification affecting a carboxylesterase gene cluster confers organophosphate resistance in the mosquito Aedes aegypti: from genomic characterization to high-throughput field detection
J. Cattel, C. Haberkorn, F. Laporte, T. Gaude, T. Cumer, J. Renaud, I. W. Sutherland, J. C. Hertz, J.-M. Bonneville, V. Arnaud, C. Nous, B. Fustec, S. Boyer, S. Marcombe, J.-P. David
This study identifies a genomic amplification of carboxylesterase genes linked to organophosphate resistance in Aedes aegypti and develops a TaqMan assay to detect it in field populations.
bioRxiv · Jun 8, 2020Evolutionary Biology