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Transcription of detoxification genes after permethrin selection in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Saavedra-Rodriguez, K., Suarez, A. F., Salas, I. F., Strode, Clare, Ranson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2332-8247, Hemingway, Janet ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3200-7173 and Black IV, W. C. (2011) 'Transcription of detoxification genes after permethrin selection in the mosquito Aedes aegypti'. Insect Molecular Biology, Vol 21, Issue 1, pp. 61-77.

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Abstract

Changes in gene expression before, during and after five generations of permethrin laboratory selection were monitored in six strains of Aedes aegypti: five F2–F3 collections from the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and one F2 from Iquitos, Peru. Three biological replicate lines were generated for each strain. The response to selection was measured as changes in the lethal and knockdown permethrin concentrations (LC50, KC50) and in the frequency of the Ile1,016 substitution in the voltage-gated sodium channel (para) gene. Changes in expression of 290 metabolic detoxification genes were measured using the ‘Aedes Detox’ microarray. Selection simultaneously increased the LC50, KC50 and Ile1,016 frequency. There was an inverse relationship between Ile1,016 frequency and the numbers of differentially transcribed genes. The Iquitos strain lacked the Ile1,016 allele and 51 genes were differentially transcribed after selection as compared with 10–18 genes in the Mexican strains. Very few of the same genes were differentially transcribed among field strains but 10 cytochrome P450 genes were upregulated in more than one strain. Laboratory adaptation to permethrin in Ae. aegypti is genetically complex and largely conditioned by geographic origin and pre-existing target site insensitivity in the para gene. The lack of uniformity in the genes that responded to artificial selection as well as differences in the direction of their responses challenges the assumption that one or a few genes control permethrin metabolic resistance. Attempts to identify one or a few metabolic genes that are predictably associated with permethrin adaptation may be futile.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Aedes aegypti; artificial selection; detoxification; knock-down resistance; permethrin resistance
Subjects: QU Biochemistry > Genetics > QU 500 Genetic phenomena
QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 525 Aedes
QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 600 Insect control. Tick control
Faculty: Department: Groups (2002 - 2012) > Vector Group
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01113.x
Depositing User: Martin Chapman
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2014 16:56
Last Modified: 30 Aug 2019 17:06
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/4684

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