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Because the target of DDT and pyrethroid insecticides is the voltage-gated Na +channel [ 15 ] , and considering that the anti-malarial quinine blocks K +channels, insights into the ion channels in the genomes of this mosquito and other insects may be useful for investigating how DDT and other pesticides may be used with greatest efficacy and safety.
How have scale insects suppressed the conflicts that normally tear chimeras apart?
Yet dozens of chemicals commonly used to kill weeds, fungus and insects on agricultural crops can cause immediate sickness in people who inhale, swallow or absorb them through skin contact, Wuerthele said.
For example, an LD130 homolog from PxGV, PX26 [ 9] showed significance values of 10 -10with the envelope protein of TED, a lepidopteran retrovirus-like retrotransposon [ 17], and in the 10 -4to 10 -10range for a number of other predicted envelope proteins from retrovirus-like retrotransposons from other insects, particularly members from the genus Drosophila . Searches with other members of the ld130 family showed values of 10 -4to 10 -6to these proteins.
That's why we will be so interested in any life found on another planet and why, in the meantime, we should take a close look at scale insects.