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Winged form of the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae.
The peach potato aphid Myzus persicae is the most economically important aphid pest in many regions of the world and has developed resistance to many classes of insecticide used for control. In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Puinean et al. made use of recent advances in genomics to quantify the expression of all genes encoding detoxification enzymes in an insecticide resistant strain of M. persicae. Resistance was associated with the over-expression of a single P450 gene, and the authors show, for the first time in an agriculturally important insect pest, that this is due to amplification of the gene.
Image Credit: Photograph courtesy of Rothamsted Research
Citation: (2010) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 6(6) June 2010. PLoS Genet 6(6): ev06.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v06.i06
Published: June 24, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Puinean et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The peach potato aphid Myzus persicae is the most economically important aphid pest in many regions of the world and has developed resistance to many classes of insecticide used for control. In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Puinean et al. made use of recent advances in genomics to quantify the expression of all genes encoding detoxification enzymes in an insecticide resistant strain of M. persicae. Resistance was associated with the over-expression of a single P450 gene, and the authors show, for the first time in an agriculturally important insect pest, that this is due to amplification of the gene.
Image Credit: Photograph courtesy of Rothamsted Research