Project description:Diquat, a bipyridinium aquatic herbicide, targets freshwater weeds but may also affect non-target species, such as the mosquito Aedes albopictus, in shared habitats. These results provide the first molecular insights into the effects of herbicides on aquatic dipterans, with implications for vector ecology, insecticide cross-resistance, and environmental risk assessment.
Project description:To determine codon optimality in Aedes Albopictus C6/36 cells, we blocked transcription using three independent transcription inhibitors (5,6-Dichlorobenzimidazole 1-β-D-ribofuranoside (DRB), Flavopiridol and Triptolide) and measured the RNA level at 6 hours post treatment using RNA-seq.
