The emergence of resistance to the benzimidazole anthlemintics in parasitic nematodes of livestock is characterised by multiple independent hard and soft selective sweeps.

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Redman (Author), Fiona Whitelaw (Author), Andrew Tait (Author), Charlotte Burgess (Author), Yvonne Bartley (Author), Philip John Skuce (Author), Frank Jackson (Author), John Stuart Gilleard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Anthelmintic resistance is a major problem for the control of parasitic nematodes of livestock and of growing concern for human parasite control. However, there is little understanding of how resistance arises and spreads or of the "genetic signature" of selection for this group of importa...