Tracing the Genetic Origins of Insecticide Resistance in Malaria-Transmitting Mosquitoes (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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A video showing malaria mosquitoes flying around a bednet. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 20, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.D. Weedall at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, UK; and colleagues was titled, "A cytochrome P450 allele confers pyrethroid resistance on a major African malaria vector reducing insecticide-treated bednet efficacy."

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This video and pictures were provided by C. Wondji from LSTM/CRID

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