Novel genotyping approaches to easily detect genomic admixture between the major Afrotropical malaria vector species, Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae
- Authors: Beniamino Caputo, Verena Pichler, Giordano Bottà, Carlo De Marco, Christina Hubbart, Eleonora Perugini, Joao Pinto, Kirk A Rockett, Alistair Miles, Alessandra della Torre
- Publication Year: 2021
- Journal: Molecular Ecology Resources, 21(5), pp 1504 - 1516
- Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13359
ABSTRACT The two most efficient and most recently radiated Afrotropical vectors of human malaria – Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae – are identified by single-locus diagnostic PCR assays based on species-specific markers in a 4 Mb region on chromosome-X centromere. Inherently, these diagnostic assays cannot detect interspecific autosomal admixture shown to be extensive at the westernmost and easternmost extremes of […]
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