Gut symbiont enhances insecticide resistance in a significant pest, the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)

Daifeng Cheng, Zijun Guo, Markus Riegler, Zhiyong Xi, Guangwen Liang, Yijuan Xu

Microbiome · 2017 · 412 citations · 53 references

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Abstract

Our findings suggest that symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance can readily develop in B. dorsalis and may represent a more widely relevant insecticide resistance mechanism than previously recognized.

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