DDT, pyrethrins, pyrethroids and insect sodium channels

By T. Davies, L. Field, P. Usherwood, M. Williamson. IUBMB Life - A Journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2007

673 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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1. Y. Gninenko
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Citations in the corpus

• Acaricide resistance mechanisms in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae and other important Acari: a review. (2010, neutral): “Mutations of this residue will destabilise pyrethroid binding and result in resistance (O’Reilly et al., 2006; Davies et al., 2007; Tsagkarakou et al., 2009).”
• A short history of insecticides (2015, background): “This ingredient was used as an insecticide in ancient China and then in the Middle Ages in Persia (Davies et al. 2007).”
• Biochemistry of Terpenoids: Monoterpenes, Sesquiterpenes and Diterpenes (2010, background): “, 2001); the pyrethrins, monoterpene esters, function as insect nerve poisons by interacting with the voltage-gated sodium channel proteins found in insect nerve cell membranes, leading to paralysis and eventual death (Davies et al., 2007); and the diterpene, atractyloside, inhibits ADP/ATP transloc”