Background The landscape of mosquito-borne disease risk has changed dramatically in
recent decades, due to the emergence and reemergence of urban transmission cycles …

The evolution of insecticide resistance is generally thought to be associated with a fitness
cost in the absence of insecticide exposure. However, it is not clear how these fitness costs …

Houseflies, Musca domestica L., are a significant pest because of the numerous diseases
they transmit. Control of housefly populations, particularly at animal production facilities, is …

Background Aedes aegypti is an important vector of many human diseases and a serious
threat to human health due to its wide geographic distribution and preference for human …

Publisher Summary The control of vector-borne diseases represents one of the greatest
global public health challenges. This chapter provides a global overview of various aspects …

Plants exhibit a number of adaptive defence traits that endow resistance to past and current
abiotic and biotic stresses. It is generally accepted that these adaptations will incur a cost …

Alleles subject to strong, recent positive selection will be swept toward fixation together with
contiguous sections of the genome. Whether the genomic signatures of such selection will …

Widespread resistance to pyrethroids threatens malaria control in Africa. Consequently,
several countries switched to carbamates and organophophates insecticides for indoor …

BACKGROUND The acaricides cyflumetofen, cyenopyrafen and pyflubumide inhibit the
mitochondrial electron transport chain at complex II [succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) …

Measuring fitness with precision is a key issue in evolutionary biology, particularly in
studying mutations of small effects. It is usually thought that sampling error and drift prevent …