Knockdown resistance (kdr) to DDT and py
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Williamson, Martin S. ;Denholm, Ian ;Bell, Caroline A. ;Devonshire, Alan L.
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Article
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1993
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Springer
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English
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The voltage-sensitive sodium channel is generally regarded as the primary target site of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane (DDT) and pyrethroid insecticides, and has been implicated in the widely reported mechanism of nerve insensitivity to these compounds. This phenomenon is expressed as knockdown