The spread of resistance to imidacloprid is restricted by thermotolerance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Alexandre Fournier-Level; Robert T Good; Stephen A Wilcox; Rahul Rane; Michelle Schiffer; Wei Chen; Paul Battlay; Trent Perry; Philip Batterham; Ary A Hoffmann; Charles Robin

Journal article

The spread of resistance to imidacloprid is restricted by thermotolerance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Alexandre Fournier-Level, Robert T Good, Stephen A Wilcox, Rahul Rane, Michelle Schiffer, Wei Chen, Paul Battlay, Trent Perry, Philip Batterham, Ary A Hoffmann, Charles Robin

Nature Ecology & Evolution | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0837-y

University of Melbourne Researchers

Philip Batterham Author BioSciences

Trent Perry Author BioSciences

Alexandre Fournier-Level Author BioSciences

Ary Hoffmann Author BioSciences

Charles Robin Author BioSciences

Grants

Awarded by Human Frontier in Sciences Long-Term fellowship

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank D. Begun, S. Myles and C. Hart for sharing their laboratory facilities, P. Griffin for fly collection, and K. Charles at Foursights Wines, D. Herbert at Herbert Vineyard, P. Dixon at the Henty Estate, J. Leahy at Becker's Vineyard, J. Seago at Ponchartrain Vineyard and Landry Vineyards for providing access to their estates. This work was supported by the Human Frontier in Sciences Long-Term fellowship no. LT000907/2012-L awarded to A.F.L.