>> High doses of insecticides can make the toxicological phenotype of 
>> resistance effectively or functionally recessive by killing the 
>> heterozygotes. A lower dose can make resistance effectively dominant. 
>> However, dominance is a property of phenotypic characters, not of 
>> alleles. The dominance of resistance alleles for other characters, such 
>> as fitness in the absence of pesticide exposure, does not have to be the 
>> same as dominance for toxicological phenotype

This sounds very significant, but I find I am unable to decode it with any 
certainty.

Can anyone break this down into layman's language? 

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Access BEE-L directly at:
http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L