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Keywords: potential for resistance to transgenic plants, principles of selection for resistance, simulation models, mortality of heterozygotes, initial allele frequencies, refuge size, number of generations per year, fitness in the absence of toxin, generations segregating for resistance, effect of fitness costs on the evolution of resistance, rate of decline in frequency of a resistance allele in the absence of exposure to toxins on a normal and log scale, conclusion about selection for resistance, resistance management to tactics for transgenic crops, moderate expression, use of moderation of dose to manage resistance based on resistance to Cry1A toxins in the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella, refuges, random mating, and seed mixes, multiple toxins: mosaics rotations, and sequential release of varieties, a comparison of selectin for resistance by a mosaic and alternation (or rotation) of insecticides on a mosquito Aedes aegypti, mixtures of toxins: pyramided varieties, tissue-specific, temporal-specific, or inducible promoters, integrated pest management, use of transgenic plants to manage pest population growth