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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida are most resistant to a common insecticide around dusk but most susceptible between midnight and dawn, a new study finds. A key contributing factor observed by researchers is that five key genes that produce detoxifying enzymes in the mosquitoes are affected by changes in light over 24-hour cycles. [Read more]
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