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Pesticide resistance warning after gene discovery

p>"This highlights more than ever that what we do today to control pests could irreversibly change the gene pool of that species," says Batterham.

"Researchers investigating pesticide resistance sometimes fails to take sufficient notice of research into Drosophila. It maybe a model genetic organism, but it is still an insect and things that happen to Drosophila happen to other insects," he warns.

"This research showed how easy it is for a single mutation to have such a diverse impact. A similar mutation in a pest species could have devastating consequences" he says.

The primary research was done by Dr. Phil Daborn (a former PhD student under Dr Batterham and Professor John McKenzie at the University of Melbourne) in the laboratory of Professor Richard ffrench-Constant at the University of Bath and current University of Melbourne students, Michael Bogwitz and Trent Perry, supervised by Dr. Batterham and Dr. David Heckel. Other collaborators include Professor Tom Wilson at Colorado State University and Dr. Rene Feyereisen at INRA (Centre de Recherches d'Antibes, France).

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Contact: Jason Major
jmajor@unimelb.edu.au
61-3-8344-0181
University of Melbourne
26-Sep-2002

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