Cryptic diversity in an Atlantic Forest malaria vector from the mountains of South-East Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii is the primary vector of human and simian malarias in Brazilian regions covered by the Atlantic Rainforest. Previous studies found that An. cruzii presents high levels of behavioural, chromosomal and molecular polymorphisms, which led to the hypothesis that it may be a complex of cryptic species. Here, An. cruzii specimens were collected in five sites in South-East Brazil located at different altitudes on the inner and coastal slopes of two mountain ranges covered by Atlantic Rainforest, known as Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueria. Partial sequences for two genes (Clock and cpr) were generated and compared with previously published sequences from Florianópolis (southern Brazil). Genetic diversity was analysed with estimates of population s

SUBMITTER: de Rezende Dias G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5769553 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature