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Comparative analyses reveal discrepancies among results of commonly used methods for Anopheles gambiaemolecular form identification.

  • Autores: Calzetta M, Caputo B, Della Torre A, Mancini E, Petrarca V, Pinto J, Santolamazza F, Vicente JL
  • Journal: Malaria Journal
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Comparative+analyses+reveal+discrepancies+among+results+of+commonly+used+methods+for+Anopheles+gambiae+molecular+form+identification.

BACKGROUND:
Anopheles gambiae M and S molecular forms, the major malaria vectors in the Afro-tropical region, are ongoing a process of ecological diversification and adaptive lineage splitting, which is affecting malaria transmission and vector control strategies in West Africa. These two incipient species are defined on the basis of single nucleotide differences in the IGS and ITS regions of multicopy rDNA located on the X-chromosome.
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Adaptive Potential of Hybridization among Malaria Vectors: Introgression at the Immune Locus TEP1 between Anopheles coluzzii and A. gambiae in ‘Far-West’ Africa

  • Autores: Caputo B, Dinis J, Gordicho V, Mancini E, Petrarca V, Pombi M, Rodrigues A, Spinaci MI, Vicente JL, Weetman D
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127804

“Far-West” Africa is known to be a secondary contact zone between the two major malaria vectors Anopheles coluzzii and A. gambiae. We investigated gene-flow and potentially adaptive introgression between these species along a west-to-east transect in Guinea Bissau, the putative core of this hybrid zone. To evaluate the extent and direction of gene flow, we […]
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Prominent intraspecific genetic divergence within Anopheles gambiae sibling species triggered by habitat discontinuities across a riverine landscape

  • Autores: Caputo B, Caputo FP, Conway DJ, Della Torre A, Dia I, Hamid-Adiamoh M, Jawara M, Konate L, Nwakanma D, Oriero EC, Petrarca V, Pinto J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Molecular Ecology
  • Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12866/abstract

The Anopheles gambiae complex of mosquitoes includes malaria vectors at different stages of speciation, whose study enables a better understanding of how adaptation to divergent environmental conditions leads to evolution of reproductive isolation. We investigated the population genetic structure of closely related sympatric taxa that have recently been proposed as separate species (An. coluzzii and An. gambiae), sampled from diverse habitats along the Gambia river in West Africa.
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