Effective population size and persistence of Anopheles arabiensis during the dry season in west Africa.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.1993.tb00704.x

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Effective population size and persistence of Anopheles arabiensis during the dry season in west Africa.

Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Oct 1993

Taylor C E, Toure Y T, Coluzzi M, Petrarca V

Abstract excerpt

The way that the malaria vectors Anopheles arabiensis and An.gambiae survive the dry season in sub-saharan Sahel or northern Savanna areas of Africa remains enigmatic. We examined this problem by calculating the effective sizes (Ne) of An.arabiensis populations for several locations in West Afric...

Topics

Africa, Western
Alleles
Animals
Anopheles
Chromosome Inversion
Gene Frequency
Insect Vectors
Longitudinal Studies
Population Density
Seasons

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