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Population genomics reveals that an anthropophilic population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Africa recently gave rise to American and Asian populations of this major disease vector.
BMC biology - 28 Feb 2017
Crawford Jacob E, Alves Joel M, Palmer William J, Day Jonathan P, Sylla Massamba, Ramasamy Ranjan, Surendran Sinnathamby N, Black William C, Pain Arnab, Jiggins Francis M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the main vector of dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses. This major disease vector is thought to have arisen when the African subspecies Ae. aegypti formosus evolved from being zoophilic and living in forest habitats into a form that specialises on humans and resides near human population centres. The resulting domestic subspecies, Ae. aegypti aegypti, is...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Aedes
- Africa, Western
- Americas
- Animal Migration
- Animals
- Asia
- Base Sequence
- Disease Vectors
- Exome
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Insect