Genetic and phenotypic variation of the malaria vector Anopheles atroparvus in southern Europe

Malaria Journal

Research

Hélène Barré¹  José L Vicente²  Teresa L Silva²  Virgílio E do Rosário²  Patrícia Salgueiro²  João Pinto³  Ricardo Alves³  José M Latorre⁴  Maria D Bargues⁴  Santiago Mas-Coma⁴  Selim S Caglar⁵  Bulent Alten⁵  Berna Demirci⁵  Nurdan Ozer⁵  Didier Fontenille⁶  Celine Toty⁶  Roberto Romi⁷  Luciano Toma⁷  Marco Di Luca⁷  Daniela Boccolini⁷  Gabriela Nicolescu⁸  Elena Falcutá⁸  Carla A Sousa⁹ 

[1] CNRS UMR 6134, Laboratoire Parasites et Ecosystèmes Méditerranéens, Université de Corse, Corte, France;Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais/UEI Malária, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira 100, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal;Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais/UEI Malária, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira 100, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal;UEI Entomologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;Departament de Parasitologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain;Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey;Intitut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France;Istituto Supperiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy;National Institute for Research and Development in Microbiology and Immunology "Cantacuzino", Bucharest, Romania;UEI Entomologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;

关键词: Malaria;    Malaria Transmission;    Malaria Vector;    Sibling Species;    Geometric Morphometrics;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2875-10-5

 received in 2010-07-22, accepted in 2011-01-11,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThere is a growing concern that global climate change will affect the potential for pathogen transmission by insect species that are vectors of human diseases. One of these species is the former European malaria vector, Anopheles atroparvus. Levels of population differentiation of An. atroparvus from southern Europe were characterized as a first attempt to elucidate patterns of population structure of this former malaria vector. Results are discussed in light of a hypothetical situation of re-establishment of malaria transmission.MethodsGenetic and phenotypic variation was analysed in nine mosquito samples collected from five European countries, using eight microsatellite loci and geometric morphometrics on 21 wing landmarks.ResultsLevels of genetic diversity were comparable to those reported for tropical malaria vectors. Low levels of genetic (0.004

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