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Molecular characterization of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae s.s. in Madagascar
Author(s) -
LE GOFF G.,
LÉONG POCK TSY J.M.,
ROBERT V.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical and veterinary entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2915
pISSN - 0269-283X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00628.x
Subject(s) - subspecies , biology , anopheles gambiae , malaria , vector (molecular biology) , haplotype , archipelago , anopheles , zoology , genome , evolutionary biology , ecology , genetics , gene , allele , immunology , recombinant dna
Abstract Anopheles gambiae s.s. Giles (Diptera: Culicidae), the primary African malaria vector, has been characterized at the subspecies level in Madagascar, where only the molecular form S and haplotype gIA occur. The haplotype gIC proposed by other authors was not observed amongst the 35 mosquito genomes sequenced. These S/gIA characteristics are also found on the Comoros archipelago and in continental Africa.