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Jul 2026
RNAi-Mediated Knockdown of the Sodium Channel Auxiliary Subunit TipE Increases Pyrethroid-Associated Mortality and Reveals Metabolic Transcriptional Responses in Megalurothrips usitatus
Background: The bean flower thrips, Megalurothrips usitatus, is a destructive agricultural pest with increasing resistance to pyrethroid insecticides. Most mechanistic studies emphasize mutations in the pore-forming voltage-gated sodium channels α-subunit, whereas the contribution of insect-specific sodium-channel auxi...
Li-Kui Wang, Si-Qing Zhang, Lin-Lin Yuan et al.
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