Chromosome and Genome Divergence between the Cryptic Eurasian Malaria Vector-Species Anopheles messeae and Anopheles daciae.

ABSTRACT: Chromosomal inversions are important drivers of genome evolution. The Eurasian malaria vector Anophelesmesseae has five polymorphic inversions. A cryptic species, An. daciae, has been discriminated from An. messeae based on five fixed nucleotide substitutions in the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of ribosomal DNA. However, the inversion polymorphism in An. daciae and the genome divergence between these species remain unexplored. In this study, we sequenced the ITS2 region and analyzed the inversion frequencies of 289 Anopheles larvae specimens collected from three locations in the Moscow region. Five individual genomes for each of the two species were sequenced. We determined that An. messeae and An. daciae differ from each othe

SUBMITTER: Naumenko AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7074279 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature