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EXPERIMENTS have been conducted with isodrin and endrin labelled with carbon-14 in the terminal unchlorinated ring1 and with aldrin and dieldrin labelled in the chlorinated ring (from the Radiochemical Centre, Amersham). Adult insects used were of a susceptible strain (S) and dieldrin-resistant strains (R 1) and (R 2). R 1 arose from the S-strain by exposure of the larvæ to dieldrin and R 2 from R 1 by removal of the dieldrin pressure after 19 generations2.
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BROOKS, G. Mechanisms of Resistance of the Adult Housefly (Musca domestica) to ‘Cyclodiene’ Insecticides. Nature 186, 96–98 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186096a0
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