"Weevils" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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BEETLES in the family Curculionidae and the largest family in the order COLEOPTERA. They have a markedly convex shape and many are considered pests.
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D048889
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.375.900
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Weevils" by people in Profiles.
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Global transcriptome profiling and functional analysis reveal that tissue-specific constitutive overexpression of cytochrome P450s confers tolerance to imidacloprid in palm weevils in date palm fields. BMC Genomics. 2019 May 31; 20(1):440.
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Identification and expression profiles of twenty-six glutathione S-transferase genes from rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Int J Biol Macromol. 2018 Dec; 120(Pt A):1063-1071.