Reproductive isolation among sympatric molecular forms of An. gambiae from inland areas of south-eastern Senegal.

ABSTRACT: The Anopheles gambiae species complex includes at least seven morphologically indistinguishable species, one of which, Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto, is the primary mosquito vector responsible for the transmission of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa. Sympatric ecological diversification of An. gambiae s.s. is in progress within this complex, leading to the emergence of at least two incipient species (the M and S molecular forms now recognized as good species and named An. coluzzii and An. gambiae respectively) that show heterogeneous levels of divergence in most parts of Africa. However, this process seems to have broken down in coastal areas of West Africa at the extreme edge of the distribution. We undertook a longitudinal study to describe An. gambiae s.s. populations collected from

SUBMITTER: Niang el HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4123975 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature