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Tabuloc et al. show that the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii, resistant to multiple insecticides, exhibits aberrant splicing in many classes of genes, including general stress response and insecticide resistance genes.
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Changes in Alternative Splicing are Associated with Insecticide Response and Resistance
Abstract. Alternative splicing (AS) promotes phenotypic plasticity to adverse conditions by altering the transcripts of genes directly involved in adaptati