Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Zambian Anopheles coustani group using a mitogenomics approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mosquito species belonging to the Anopheles coustani group have been implicated in driving residual malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa and are regarded as an established primary vector in Madagascar. The morphological identification of mosquitoes in this group is challenging due to similarity of features and their molecular confirmation is difficult due to a paucity of reference sequence data representing all members of the group. Conventional molecular barcoding with the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene and the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region targets is limited in their discrimination and conclusive identification of members of species complexes. In contrast, complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) have demonstrated much improved power over barco

SUBMITTER: Usmani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12211492 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature