Late Pleistocene environmental changes lead to unstable demography and population divergence of Anopheles albimanus in the northern Neotropics.

Autor: Loaiza JR; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, 21,111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., Canada. jose.loaiza@mail.mcgill.ca, Scott ME, Bermingham E, Sanjur OI, Wilkerson R, Rovira J, Gutiérrez LA, Correa MM, Grijalva MJ, Birnberg L, Bickersmith S, Conn JE
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution [Mol Phylogenet Evol] 2010 Dec; Vol. 57 (3), pp. 1341-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Oct 01.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.09.016
Abstrakt: We investigated the historical demography of Anopheles albimanus using mosquitoes from five countries and three different DNA regions, the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (COI), the single copy nuclear white gene and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer two (ITS2). All the molecular markers supported the taxonomic status of a single species of An. albimanus. Furthermore, agreement between the COI and the white genes suggested a scenario of Pleistocene geographic fragmentation (i.e., population contraction) and subsequent range expansion across southern Central America.
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