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Record W4412556573 · doi:10.3390/insects16080749

Geographic Distribution of Phosphine Resistance and Frequency of Resistance Genes in Two Species of Grain Beetles, Tribolium castaneum and Rhyzopertha dominica, in North America

2025· article· en· W4412556573 on OpenAlex
Zhaorigetu Hubhachen, A. J. Cato, Edwin Afful, Manoj K. Nayak, Thomas W. Phillips

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Bibliographic record

VenueInsects · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect Pest Control Strategies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAustralian Government
KeywordsBiologyResistance (ecology)AlleleGeneInsecticide resistanceBostrichidaeGeneticsBotanyPEST analysisEcologyToxicology

Abstract

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Resistance to the fumigant phosphine (PH3) was studied for 28 populations of Rhyzopertha dominica from eight states of the USA and four provinces of Canada, as well as for 34 populations of Tribolium castaneum from twelve states of the USA and four provinces of Canada, using both a discriminating dose bioassay and molecular marker analysis. We used a molecular marker analysis for a point mutation in the gene that encodes dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase and facilitates the “strong resistance” phenotype in both species. Our results showed that PH3 resistance was correlated with higher frequencies of the strong resistance R allele in both species (R2 = 0.59 in R. dominica and R2 = 0.79 in T. castaneum). We also found that recessive R allele frequency did not correlate well with the geographic distribution of the resistant populations of these two species (R2 = 0.21 in R. dominica and R2 = 0.15 in T. castaneum). Therefore, populations of both species with higher R allele frequencies had higher resistance levels to PH3. Our results showed that the geographic distribution of PH3 resistance in both species varied and was not related geographically, but this supports the idea that the adaptive evolution of PH3 resistance in these species is caused by selection pressure for their resistance genes.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.462
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it