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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

2025-01-28

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Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form molestus , also known as the London Underground Mosquito. Population genomic analysis of ∼350 contemporary and historical samples counter the popular hypothesis that molestus originated belowground in London less th...

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Literature Corpus work: cfec2035-237f-58d0-a88d-d45338f897bb
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.26.634793

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