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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Mis-spliced transcripts of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α6 are associated with field evolved spinosad resistance in Plutella xylostella (L.) |
Other Titles: | Mis-spliced transcripts of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha6 are associated with field evolved spinosad resistance in Plutella xylostella (L.) |
Author: | Baxter, S. Chen, M. Dawson, A. Zhao, J. Vogel, H. Shelton, A. Heckel, D. Jiggins, C. |
Citation: | PLoS Genetics, 2010; 6(1):1-10 |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 1553-7390 1553-7404 |
Editor: | Stern, D.L. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Simon W. Baxter, Mao Chen, Anna Dawson, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Heiko Vogel, Anthony M. Shelton, David G. Heckel and Chris D. Jiggins |
Abstract: | The evolution of insecticide resistance is a global constraint to agricultural production. Spinosad is a new, low-environmental-risk insecticide that primarily targets nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) and is effective against a wide range of pest species. However, after only a few years of application, field evolved resistance emerged in the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, an important pest of brassica crops worldwide. Spinosad resistance in a Hawaiian population results from a single incompletely recessive and autosomal gene, and here we use AFLP linkage mapping to identify the chromosome controlling resistance in a backcross family. Recombinational mapping with more than 700 backcross progeny positioned a putative spinosad target, nAChR alpha 6 (Pxα6), at the resistance locus, PxSpinR. A mutation within the ninth intron splice junction of Pxα6 results in mis-splicing of transcripts, which produce a predicted protein truncated between the third and fourth transmembrane domains. Additional resistance-associated Pxα6 transcripts that excluded the mutation containing exon were detected, and these were also predicted to produce truncated proteins. Identification of the locus of resistance in this important crop pest will facilitate field monitoring of the spread of resistance and offer insights into the genetic basis of spinosad resistance in other species. |
Keywords: | Animals Moths Macrolides Insect Proteins Receptors, Nicotinic Drug Combinations Sequence Alignment Inbreeding RNA Splicing Amino Acid Sequence Base Sequence Insecticide Resistance Molecular Sequence Data |
Rights: | Copyright © Baxter et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000802 |
Grant ID: | ARC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000802 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Environment Institute publications Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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