{"id":2242,"date":"2014-07-08T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:03:00","slug":"predicting-species-tolerance-to-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/predicting-species-tolerance-to-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting species tolerance to pesticides<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new computer model could help biologists predict how various species will respond to pesticides. \u00a0Because of varying responses to pesticides between species &#8211; including their tendency to develop tolerance &#8211; it\u2019s costly and difficult not only to judge their potential effectiveness but also to manage the \u00a0unintended consequences in non-target species. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The new model ties predictions about tolerance to phylogeny, that is, the family relationship between species. This could help researchers extrapolate existing data to species for which tests have not yet been done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/281\/1789\/20133239.abstract?sid=ff65c072-a670-4155-b850-8f46141f4f11\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guillaume Gu\u00e9nard, University of Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new computer model could help biologists predict how various species will respond to pesticides. \u00a0Because of varying responses to pesticides between species &#8211; including their tendency to develop tolerance &#8211; it\u2019s costly and difficult not only to judge their potential effectiveness but also to manage the \u00a0unintended consequences in non-target species. The new model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,170,113,1866,917,909,40,1847,849],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-crops","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-insects","tag-pesticides","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}