Acaricide resistance is one of the greatest threats to sustainable and effective control of vector ticks worldwide. The amitraz resistance status in cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus populations collected from 18 districts of Punjab in north-western India were characterized using bioassay and molecular assays. The modified larval packet test was used and the resistance factors (RF) against amitraz for the field populations were in the range of 0.36-4.85, indicating level I resistance status in ten populations. Characterization of a partial segment of the octopamine/tyramine (OCT/Tyr) receptor gene of R. microplus field populations from Punjab revealed a total of 18 nucleotide substitutions in the coding region out of which 5 were non-synonymous substitutions. Three of these non-synonymous substitutions (T8P, V15I and A20 T) were earlier reported in American and South African populations of R. microplus. Among the two single nucleotide polymorphisms (A22C-T8P; T65C-L22S) potentially linked to amitraz resistance in American, South African and Zimbabwean resistant populations, only the T8P substitution was recorded from the Barnala population. The PCR-RFLP assay using EciI restriction enzyme was used for genotyping of the larvae as homozygous resistant (RR), homozygous susceptible (SS) and heterozygous (SR). Genotyping of 514 larval DNA samples from 18 field populations revealed 92.8 % larval population as SR and the remaining 7.2 % as RR genotypes. The percentage of resistant alleles in the tick populations was 53.6 (range 50.0-57.2) indicating its moderate distribution in the region. The present study is the pioneer report establishing the hypothesis that amitraz-resistance is recessively inherited and heterozygous individuals show phenotypic susceptibility to the drug in the Indian tick populations.
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