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RECENT communications1,2 on the variance of the dosage-mortality response of strains of housefly and mosquito susceptible and resistant to insecticide serve to emphasize that, although there is considerable information on the inheritance of resistance to insecticide in some insects, especially houseflies3, Drosophila4 and now mosquitoes5, there has as yet been no direct estimate of how much of the unselected tolerance is genetically determined, how much is due to environmental effects. Beard6, who first directed attention to the possibilities, considered the non-genetic variation might so predominate as to overwhelm the genetic components.
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SPILLER, D. Variations in the Insecticide Tolerance of Insects. Nature 182, 1177 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821177a0
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