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Apart from its applied significance, insecticide resistance is an excellent model system for studying the molecular basis of evolutionary change, in particular, the acquisition of a qualitatively different phenotype. It also has the unusual advantage in evolutionary biology that the change has been widespread and rapid enough to be amenable to analysis; approximately 450 species of insects and mites have developed resistance to chemical insecticides over the past forty years (Georghiou, 1986).
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Russell, R.J., Dumancic, M.M., Foster, G.G., Weller, G.L., Healy, M.J., Oakeshott, J.G. (1990). Insecticide Resistance as a Model System for Studying Molecular Evolution. In: Barker, J.S.F., Starmer, W.T., MacIntyre, R.J. (eds) Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila . Monographs in Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8768-8_20
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