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Pesticide Resistance in Arthropod Natural Enemies: Variability and Selection Responses

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Pesticide Resistance in Arthropods

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There are several controversial issues relating to the presence, absence, or degree of resistance to pesticides in arthropod natural enemies. Most of these issues have been extensively reviewed. Therefore, rather than review the reviews, this chapter will briefly review past results and present new information on variability and selection responses obtained from recent research on four natural enemy species. The new data may alter some traditional perceptions of problems associated with detecting naturally occurring pesticide resistances and the likelihood of inducing resistance in arthropod natural enemies through artificial selection, recombinant DNA (rDNA) techniques, or mutagenesis. As throughout this book, pesticide resistance is defined as a genetically induced change in the ability of a population to tolerate pesticides; no minimal level of change in tolerance need occur to be considered resistance by this definition, as long as the measured differences are repeatable and can be estimated in a statistically reliable manner (Chapter 2). The term tolerance will be used to describe the ability of an organism to survive a specific pesticide dose; it does not imply that a genetically determined change has occurred.

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