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The Journal of Heredity 1997:88(6):520-524
© 1997 The American Genetic Association 88:520-524

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Molecular Mapping of Insecticide Resistance Genes in the Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)

D. W. Severson, N. M. Anthony, O. Andreev, and R. H. ffrench-Constant

Departments of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
Departments of Entomology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

Corresponding Editor: Stephen J. O'Brien

Abstract

Several loci conferring insecticide resistance in the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) have previously been mapped by simple recombinational mapping. Here we describe correlation of these resistance phenotypes with molecular gene probes for insecticide target sites by RFLP mapping. The para sodium channel gene homologue and the GABA receptor gene Resistance to dieldrin map to the same genome regions as the DDT/pyrethroid and cyclodiene resistance loci, respectively. Although the acetylcholinesterase (target site of organophosphorus and carbamate insecticides) gene Ace does not map to any known resistance locus, it maps very close to the sex-determining locus. We discuss the possibilities that, if identified, Ace-mediated resistance in A. aegypti will be sex linked or that, as suggested for anopheline mosquitoes, two independent Ace loci may exist, one of which is autosomal. These results support the importance of target site insensitivity as an insecticide resistance mechanism in mosquitoes.


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