In:
Genetical Research, Hindawi Limited, Vol. 79, No. 1 ( 2002-02), p. 41-47
Abstract:
Resistance to organophosphorus insecticides (OP) in Culex pipiens mosquitoes represents a convenient model for investigating the fitness cost of resistance genes and its origin, since both the environmental changes in nature and the adaptive genes are clearly identified. Two loci are involved in this resistance – the super-locus Ester and the locus Ace.1 – each displaying several resistance alleles. Population surveys have shown differences in fitness cost between these resistance genes and even between resistance alleles of the same locus. In order to better understand this fitness cost and its variability, the effects of these resistance genes on several fitness-related traits are being studied. Here, through competition experiments between two males for the access to one female, we analysed the effect on paternity success associated with three resistance alleles – Ester 4 , Ester 1 and Ace.1 R – relative to susceptible males and relative to one another. The eventual effect of female genotype on male mating success was also studied by using susceptible and resistant females. The strains used in this experiment had the same genetic background. Susceptible males had a mating advantage when competing with any of the resistant males, suggesting a substantial cost of resistance genes to this trait. When competing against susceptible males, the paternity success did not vary among resistant males, whatever the genotype of the female. When competing against other resistant males, no difference in paternity success was apparent, except when the female was Ester 1 .
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0016-6723
,
1469-5073
DOI:
10.1017/S001667230100547X
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hindawi Limited
Publication Date:
2002
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2412684-6
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1472156-9
SSG:
12
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