Insects are exposed to a variety of stress factors in their environment, and, in many cases for
insect pests to agriculture, those factors include toxic chemical insecticides. Coping with the …

Many of the most dangerous human diseases are transmitted by insect vectors. After
decades of repeated insecticide use, all of these vector species have demonstrated the …

High insecticide resistance resulting from insensitive acetylcholinesterase (AChE) has
emerged in mosquitoes. A single mutation (G119S of the ace‐1 gene) explains this high …

Pyrethroids are the most used insecticide class worldwide. They target the voltage gated
sodium channel (NaV), inducing the knockdown effect. In Aedes aegypti, the main dengue …

Esterases have been a major part of insect biochemical research over the last 50 years. As
an important component of insects' xenobiotic defence system, they have long been a focus …

Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic
organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge …

Background Traditional vector control approaches such as source reduction and insecticide
spraying have limited effect on reducing Aedes aegypti population. The endosymbiont …

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is the target of two major insecticide families,
organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates. AChE insensitivity is a frequent resistance …

Malaria is still a major burden causing the death of nearly 655,000 people each year, mostly
in children under the age of five, and affecting those living in the poorest countries [1] …

Gene duplication is widely regarded as the predominant mechanism by which genes with
new functions and associated phenotypic novelties arise. However, the mutational events …