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Evidence for late Pleistocene population expansion of the malarial mosquitoes, Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles gambiae in Nigeria.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Dec 2007
Matthews S D, Meehan L J, Onyabe D Y, Vineis J, Nock I, Ndams I, Conn J E
Abstract excerpt
Anopheles gambiae Giles s.s. and Anopheles arabiensis Patton (Diptera: Culicidae) are major vectors of malaria in Nigeria. We used 1115 bp of the mitochondrial COI gene to assess their population genetic structures based on samples from across Nigeria (n = 199). The mtDNA neighbour-joining tree,...
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