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Rapid urban evolution of the dengue mosquito in West African cities

2026-06-26

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Aedes aegypti is an exceptionally effective global vector of human disease because of its strong specialization on human hosts and habitats. However, in its native range in Africa, many populations never specialized on humans and retained an ancestral generalist ecology. Now, in the rapidly growing cities of Kumasi, Ghana and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, we directly document genomic and behavioral evidence of a sudd...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.25.734560

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