Aedes aegypti in the Black Sea: recent introduction or ancient remnant?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits viral diseases that have plagued humans for centuries. Its ancestral home are forests of Africa and ~400-600 years ago it invaded the New World and later Europe and Asia, causing some of the largest epidemics in human history. The species was rarely detected in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea after the 1950s, but during the last 16 years it re-appeared in Madeira, Russia and in the eastern coast of the Black Sea. We genotyped Ae. aegypti populations from the Black Sea region to investigate whether this is a recent invasion (and if so, where it came from) or a remnant of pre-eradication populations that extended across the Mediterranean. We also use the Black Sea populations together with a world reference pane

SUBMITTER: Kotsakiozi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035450 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature