Graduate Student University of the Pacific Stockton, California, United States
Abstract: Are knockdown resistance (kdr) phenotypes recessive? This talk will give a brief overview on complete dominance and then look at the literature on kdr. Spoiler: the information from previous work is mixed. Then, a quick dive into recent work on Culex tarsalis looking at the relationship between number of kdr alleles and functional resistance in a bottle bioassay. Will we definitively answer the question on recessiveness? Probably not, but I hope it is interesting to think about!
