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While not as toxic as deltamethrin, the isoxazolines and meta-diamide, broflanilide, represent promising classes of insecticides that could be formulated for use against adult mosquitoes, with the advantages of a favorable mammalian toxicological profile and no cross-resistance in pyrethroid resistant strains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jme\/tjaf150","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,22]],"date-time":"2025-10-22T18:13:03Z","timestamp":1761156783000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Comparative toxicity of the isoxazolines afoxolaner, fluralaner, and fluxametamide, and the meta-diamide broflanilide against adult\n                    <i>Aedes aegypti<\/i>\n                    (Diptera: Culicidae) and\n                    <i>Anopheles quadrimaculatus<\/i>\n                    (Diptera: Culicidae)"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"63","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-3419-9298","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lillie M","family":"Rooney","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert W","family":"Mertz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Entomology, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0765-1896","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jeffrey G","family":"Scott","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Entomology, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8144-0897","authenticated-orcid":false,"suffix":"IV","given":"Edwin R","family":"Burgess","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026031200573908900_tjaf150-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"265","DOI":"10.1093\/jee\/18.2.265a","article-title":"A method of computing the effectiveness of an insecticide","volume":"18","author":"Abbott","year":"1925","journal-title":"J. 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