Mitochondrial genomes of Anopheles arabiensis, An. gambiae and An. coluzzii show no clear species division.

ABSTRACT: Here we report the complete mitochondrial sequences of 70 individual field collected mosquito specimens from throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. We generated this dataset to identify species specific markers for the following Anopheles species and chromosomal forms: An. arabiensis, An. coluzzii (The Forest and Mopti chromosomal forms) and An. gambiae (The Bamako and Savannah chromosomal forms).  The raw Illumina sequencing reads were mapped to the NC_002084 reference mitogenome sequence. A total of 783 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected on the mitochondrial genome, of which 460 are singletons (58.7%). None of these SNPs are suitable as molecular markers to distinguish among An. arabiensis, An. coluzzii and <

SUBMITTER: Hanemaaijer MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6489993 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature