Resistance to DDT in the Mosquito Fish, Gambusia affinis
- 18 January 1963
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 139 (3551), 217-218
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3551.217
Abstract
Mosquito fish from waters near cotton fields that have had a long history of treatment with chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides exhibited a marked resistance to DDT compared with fish from areas which had had no past exposure to insecticides.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Comparative Toxicity of DDT and Four Analogues to Goldfish, Gambusia, and Culex LarvaeScience, 1946