TEAM FINDS KEY MECHANISM OF DDT RESISTANCE IN MALARIAL MOSQUITOES
June 16, 2008
June 16, 2008
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 16 -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release:
University of Illinois researchers have identified a key detoxifying protein in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a synthetic insecticide used since World War II to control the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
The new findings, described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that a protein produced at elevated level . . .
University of Illinois researchers have identified a key detoxifying protein in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a synthetic insecticide used since World War II to control the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
The new findings, described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that a protein produced at elevated level . . .