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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 1998, p. 4174-4179, Vol. 64, No. 11
Department of
Entomology1 and
Interdepartmental
Graduate Program in Genetics,3 University of
California, Riverside, California 92521, and
Unité
des Bactéries Entomopathogènes, Institute Pasteur,
Paris, France2
Received 27 May 1998/Accepted 8 August 1998
A novel mosquitocidal bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis
subsp. jegathesan, and one of its toxins, Cry11B, in a
recombinant B. thuringiensis strain were evaluated for
cross-resistance with strains of the mosquito Culex
quinquefasciatus that are resistant to single and multiple toxins
of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.
The levels of cross-resistance (resistance ratios [RR]) at
concentrations which caused 95% mortality (LC95) between B. thuringiensis subsp. jegathesan and the
different B. thuringiensis subsp.
israelensis-resistant mosquito strains were low, ranging from 2.3 to 5.1. However, the levels of cross-resistance to Cry11B were
much higher and were directly related to the complexity of the B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis Cry toxin mixtures
used to select the resistant mosquito strains. The LC95 RR
obtained with the mosquito strains were as follows: 53.1 against
Cq4D, which was resistant to Cry11A; 80.7 against
Cq4AB, which was resistant to Cry4A plus Cry4B; and 347 against Cq4ABD, which was resistant to Cry4A plus Cry4B
plus Cry11A. Combining Cyt1A with Cry11B at a 1:3 ratio had little
effect on suppressing Cry11A resistance in Cq4D but
resulted in synergism factors of 4.8 and 11.2 against strains
Cq4AB and Cq4ABD, respectively; this procedure
eliminated cross-resistance in the former mosquito strain and reduced
it markedly in the latter strain. The high levels of activity of B. thuringiensis subsp. jegathesan and B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, both of which
contain a complex mixture of Cry and Cyt proteins, against Cry4- and
Cry11-resistant mosquitoes suggest that novel bacterial strains with
multiple Cry and Cyt proteins may be useful in managing resistance to
bacterial insecticides in mosquito populations.
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Variable Cross-Resistance to Cry11B from Bacillus
thuringiensis subsp. jegathesan in Culex
quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Resistant to Single or
Multiple Toxins of Bacillus thuringienisis subsp.
israelensis
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. Phone: (909) 787-3918. Fax: (909) 787-3086. E-mail:
mcwirth{at}mail.ucr.edu.
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