Hybrid sterility in crosses between two Brazilian sibling species of the Anopheles albitarsis complex.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Complexes of cryptic species are common in several taxa and this is also the case in the Anopheles genus, a group including all known human malaria vectors. The Anopheles albitarsis complex comprises at least nine cryptic species, some of which are implicated as vectors of human malaria. Several different types of data have been generated for this species complex such as cytogenetics, alloenzymes, morphological and feeding behavioral, hybridization experiments, RAPD-PCR and RFLP and mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Studies focused on its postzygotic isolation are still somewhat rare in the literature despite their importance to understand the speciation process and the level of gene flow potentially occurring among the different sibling species.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Fontoura NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4264609 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature