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ArticleEcology letters2026

Eco-Evolutionary Feedback to a Pesticide Worsens the Impact of a Pesticide Switch in a Pivotal Freshwater Non-Target Species.

Rafaela A Almeida, Maxime Fajgenblat, Pieter Lemmens, Kiani Cuypers, Jade Maes, Kristien I Brans, Luc De Meester

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Article in Ecology letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Rafaela A AlmeidaLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5228-9091
Maxime FajgenblatLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2233-1527
Pieter LemmensLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3135-9724
Kiani CuypersLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Jade MaesDepartment of Fisheries Biology, Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Research (ILVO), Ostend, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7253-9425
Kristien I BransEcology, Evolution & Genetics (bDIV) Research Group, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0464-7720
Luc De MeesterLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5433-6843

Funding

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 11E3222NFonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 1228725NOnderzoeksraad, KU Leuven C16/2023/003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pest management often requires the rotation of insecticides, sequentially exposing non-target populations to different compounds. In a two-phased experiment, we assessed whether exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos induces rapid evolution in the non-target species Daphnia magna and quantified the response of control and pre-exposed populations to a second exposure to the same pesticide, another pesticide with the same mode of action (malathion), or a pesticide with another mode of action (deltamethrin). Chlorpyrifos selection induced rapid shifts in genotype composition and reduced genotype richness and strongly influenced population development following the second exposure. Chlorpyrifos-selected populations outperformed control populations when subsequently exposed to chlorpyrifos and malathion but underperformed when exposed to deltamethrin. Our results highlight an eco-evolutionary feedback in which rapid adaptive responses to a pesticide worsen the response when exposed to a different type of pesticide in non-target species, increasing vulnerability to common agricultural practices.

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Biological EvolutionChlorpyrifosDaphnia magnaInsecticidesPesticidesAnimalsGenotypeMalathionNitrilesPyrethrinsChlorpyrifosdecamethrinInsecticidesMalathionNitrilesPesticidesPyrethrinsadaptationcross‐tolerancefitness costgenetic erosionpesticide resistancezooplankton

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PMID42905957
PMCPMC13686550

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