Interactions of pyrethroids with the voltage-gated sodium channel

Pyrethroid insecticides act on the voltage-gated sodium channel and mutations of the channel can confer resistance in many insect species. For example, the kdr (LI014F) mutation found in domain IIS6 and the super-kdr (M918T) mutation found in the IIS4-S5 linker of the insect Drosophila melanogaster...

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Main Author: Atkinson, Susan
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14490/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14490/1/275966.pdf