Authors
Andrea Gloria‐Soria, Diego Ayala, Ambicadutt Bheecarry, Olger Calderon‐Arguedas, Dave D Chadee, Marina Chiappero, Maureen Coetzee, Khouaildi Bin Elahee, Ildefonso Fernandez‐Salas, Hany A Kamal, Basile Kamgang, Emad IM Khater, Laura D Kramer, Vicki Kramer, Alma Lopez‐Solis, Joel Lutomiah, Ademir Martins Jr, Maria Victoria Micieli, Christophe Paupy, Alongkot Ponlawat, Nil Rahola, Syed Basit Rasheed, Joshua B Richardson, Amag A Saleh, Rosa Maria Sanchez‐Casas, Gonçalo Seixas, Carla A Sousa, Walter J Tabachnick, Adriana Troyo, Jeffrey R Powell
Publication date
2016/11
Journal
Molecular ecology
Volume
25
Issue
21
Pages
5377-5395
Description
Mosquitoes, especially Aedes aegypti, are becoming important models for studying invasion biology. We characterized genetic variation at 12 microsatellite loci in 79 populations of Ae. aegypti from 30 countries in six continents, and used them to infer historical and modern patterns of invasion. Our results support the two subspecies Ae. aegypti formosus and Ae. aegypti aegypti as genetically distinct units. Ae. aegypti aegypti populations outside Africa are derived from ancestral African populations and are monophyletic. The two subspecies co‐occur in both East Africa (Kenya) and West Africa (Senegal). In rural/forest settings (Rabai District of Kenya), the two subspecies remain genetically distinct, whereas in urban settings, they introgress freely. Populations outside Africa are highly genetically structured likely due to a combination of recent founder effects, discrete discontinuous habitats and low migration rates …
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A Gloria‐Soria, D Ayala, A Bheecarry… - Molecular ecology, 2016