Temporal stability of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes populations in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glossina fuscipes, a riverine species of tsetse, is the major vector of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the population dynamics, and specifically the temporal stability, of G. fuscipes will be important for informing vector control activities. We evaluated genetic changes over time in seven populations of the subspecies G. f. fuscipes distributed across southeastern Uganda, including a zone of contact between two historically isolated lineages. A total of 667 tsetse flies were genotyped at 16 microsatellite loci and at one mitochondrial locus.

Results

Results of an AMOVA indicated that time of sampling did not explain a significant proportion of the variance in allele frequencies observed across all samples. Estimates of di

SUBMITTER: Echodu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3045980 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature