Genome-Wide Divergence in the West-African Malaria Vector Anopheles melas.

ABSTRACT: Anopheles melas is a member of the recently diverged An. gambiae species complex, a model for speciation studies, and is a locally important malaria vector along the West-African coast where it breeds in brackish water. A recent population genetic study of An. melas revealed species-level genetic differentiation between three population clusters. An. melas West extends from The Gambia to the village of Tiko, Cameroon. The other mainland cluster, An. melas South, extends from the southern Cameroonian village of Ipono to Angola. Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea An. melas populations are genetically isolated from mainland populations. To examine how genetic differentiation between these An. melas forms is distributed across their genomes, we conducted a genome-wide analysis of genetic differen

SUBMITTER: Deitz KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5015944 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature