Ecological genomics of Anopheles gambiae along a latitudinal cline: a population-resequencing approach.

ABSTRACT: The association between fitness-related phenotypic traits and an environmental gradient offers one of the best opportunities to study the interplay between natural selection and migration. In cases in which specific genetic variants also show such clinal patterns, it may be possible to uncover the mutations responsible for local adaptation. The malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, is associated with a latitudinal cline in aridity in Cameroon; a large inversion on chromosome 2L of this mosquito shows large differences in frequency along this cline, with high frequencies of the inverted karyotype present in northern, more arid populations and an almost complete absence of the inverted arrangement in southern populations. Here we use a genome resequencing approach to investigate patterns of pop

SUBMITTER: Cheng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3316653 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature