A genomic approach to inferring kinship reveals limited intergenerational dispersal in the yellow fever mosquito.

ABSTRACT: Understanding past dispersal and breeding events can provide insight into ecology and evolution and can help inform strategies for conservation and the control of pest species. However, parent-offspring dispersal can be difficult to investigate in rare species and in small pest species such as mosquitoes. Here, we develop a methodology for estimating parent-offspring dispersal from the spatial distribution of close kin, using pairwise kinship estimates derived from genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). SNPs were scored in 162 Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito) collected from eight close-set, high-rise apartment buildings in an area of Malaysia with high dengue incidence. We used the SNPs to reconstruct kinship groups across three orders of kinship. We transformed the geogr

SUBMITTER: Jasper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6790672 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature