High Levels of Admixture in Anopheles gambiae Populations from Cote d'Ivoire Revealed by Multilocus Genotyping.

ABSTRACT: Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae-the two most recently radiated species of the An. gambiae complex and the major Afrotropical malaria vector species-are identified by markers in the X-centromeric IGS rDNA region. Putative IGS-hybrids are rarely found in the field, except in restricted areas where genomic studies have led to the hypothesis that the observed IGS-patterns are due to cryptic taxa rather than to hybridization between the two species. We investigated the genome-wide levels of admixture in two villages in Côte d'Ivoire where high levels of IGS-hybrids have been detected, confirming unparalleled high frequencies in the coastal village. Genotyping of 24 Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) along the three chromosomes produced discordant results between the IGS

SUBMITTER: Tondossama N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9782310 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature