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Resistance to Synthetic Juvenile Hormone in a Strain of the Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Nature volume 238, pages 48–49 (1972)Cite this article

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INSECT hormones, and compounds which mimic their effects, have potential as insect control agents. Substances with juvenile hormone activity have considerable promise in this respect, and it has been suggested that insect strains resistant to such compounds would be unlikely to evolve1,2. The present study shows that a strain of Tribolium castaneum resistant to many conventional insecticides is also resistant to juvenile hormone.

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DYTE, C. Resistance to Synthetic Juvenile Hormone in a Strain of the Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Nature 238, 48–49 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238048a0

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