Remarkable diversity of intron-1 of the para voltage-gated sodium channel gene in an Anopheles gambiae/Anopheles coluzzii hybrid zone

• Authors: Caputo B, Conway DJ, Della Torre A, Fanello C, Mancini E, Nwakanma DC, Petrarca V, Pinto J, Santolamazza F, Weetman D
• Publication Year: 2015
• Journal: Malaria Journal
• Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25604888

BACKGROUND: Genomic differentiation between Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii–the major malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa–is localized into large “islands” toward the centromeres of chromosome-X and the two autosomes. Linkage disequilibrium between these genomic islands was first detected between species-specific polymorphisms within ribosomal DNA genes (IGS-rDNA) on the X-chromosome and a single variant at position 702 […]
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