A cis-regulatory sequence driving metabolic insecticide resistance in mosquitoes: Functional characterisation and signatures of selection

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 699-707

  Wilding, Craig S ^a   Smith, Ian ^a   Lynd, Amy ^a   Yawson, Alexander Egyir ^b   Weetman, David ^a   Paine, Mark J I ^a   Donnelly, Martin J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ghana Atomic Energy Commission   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Culex quinquefasciatus; Gene expression; Insecticide resistance; MITE; Promoter; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; LUCIFERASE; PERMETHRIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GHANA; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LD 50; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CULEX; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GHANA; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LUCIFERASES; PERMETHRIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UP-REGULATION;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864797274     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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