Fitness effects for Ace insecticide resistance mutations are determined by ambient temperature.
Anna Maria LangmüllerViola NolteRuwansha GalagedaraRodolphe PoupardinMarlies DolezalChristian SchlöttererPublished in: BMC biology (2020)
We show that fitness costs of insecticide resistance genes are temperature-dependent and suggest that the duration of insecticide-free periods need to be adjusted for different climatic regions to reflect these costs. We suggest that such environment-dependent fitness effects may be more common than previously assumed and pose a major challenge for modeling climate change.