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Thornton, Jonathan, Gomes, Bruno 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3877-2359, Ayres, Constância and Reimer, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-4981
(2020)
'Insecticide resistance selection and reversal in two strains of
Aedes aegypti'. Wellcome Open Research, Vol 5, e183.
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Abstract
Background: Laboratory reared mosquito colonies are essential tools to understand insecticide action. However, they differ considerably from wild populations and from each other depending on their origin and rearing conditions, which makes studying the effects of specific resistance mechanisms difficult. This paper describes our methods for establishing multiple resistant strains of Aedes aegypti from two colonies as a new resource for further research on metabolic and target site resistance.
Methods: Two resistant colonies of Ae. aegypti, from Cayman and Recife, were selected through 10 generations of exposure to insecticides including permethrin, malathion and temephos, to yield eight strains with different profiles of resistance due to either target site or metabolic resistance. Resistance ratios for each insecticide were calculated for the selected and unselected strains. The frequency of kdr alleles in the Cayman strains was determined using TaqMan assays. A comparative gene expression analysis among Recife strains was conducted using qPCR in larvae (CCae3A, CYP6N12, CYP6F3, CYP9M9) and adults (CCae3A, CYP6N12, CYP6BB2, CYP9J28a).
Results: In the selected strain of Cayman, mortality against permethrin reduced almost to 0% and kdr became fixated by 5 generations. A similar phenotype was seen in the unselected homozygous resistant colony, whilst mortality in the susceptible homozygous colony rose to 82.9%. The Recife strains showed different responses between exposure to adulticide and larvicide, with detoxification genes in the temephos selected strain staying similar to the baseline, but a reduction in detoxification genes displayed in the other strains.
Conclusions: These selected strains, with a range of insecticide resistance phenotypes and genotypes, will support further research on the effects of target-site and/or metabolic resistance mechanisms on various life-history traits, behaviours and vector competence of this important arbovirus vector.
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| Additional Information: | Thornton J, Gomes B, Ayres C and Reimer L. Insecticide resistance selection and reversal in two strains of Aedes aegypti [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Res 2020, 5:183 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15974.1) |
| Subjects: | QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 525 Aedes WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 240 Disinfection. Disinfestation. Pesticides (including diseases caused by) |
| Faculty: Department: | Biological Sciences > Vector Biology Department |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15974.1 |
| Depositing User: | Samantha Sheldrake |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2020 12:02 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2020 12:06 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/15766 |
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