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Widespread divergence between incipient Anopheles gambiae species revealed by whole genome sequences.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Oct 2010
Lawniczak M K N, Emrich S J, Holloway A K, Regier A P, Olson M, White B, Redmond S, Fulton L, Appelbaum E, Godfrey J, Farmer C, Chinwalla A, Yang S-P, Minx P, Nelson J, Kyung K, Walenz B P, Garcia-Hernandez E, Aguiar M, Viswanathan L D, Rogers Y-H, Strausberg R L, Saski C A, Lawson D, Collins F H, Kafatos F C, Christophides G K, Clifton S W, Kirkness E F, Besansky N J
Abstract excerpt
The Afrotropical mosquito Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto, a major vector of malaria, is currently undergoing speciation into the M and S molecular forms. These forms have diverged in larval ecology and reproductive behavior through unknown genetic mechanisms, despite considerable levels of hybridization. Previous genome-wide scans using gene-based microarrays uncovered divergence between M and S that was largely...
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