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Late Pleistocene environmental changes lead to unstable demography and population divergence of Anopheles albimanus in the northern Neotropics.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2010
Loaiza Jose R, Scott Marilyn E, Bermingham Eldredge, Sanjur Oris I, Wilkerson Richard, Rovira Jose, Gutiérrez Lina A, Correa Margarita M, Grijalva Mario J, Birnberg Lotty, Bickersmith Sara, Conn Jan E
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the historical demography of Anopheles albimanus using mosquitoes from five countries and three different DNA regions, the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (COI), the single copy nuclear white gene and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer two (ITS2). All the molecular markers supported the taxonomic status of a single species of An. albimanus. Furthermore, agreement between the...
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