The use of microsatellites to study gene flow in natural populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in Africa: Potential and pitfalls

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 266-272

  Walton, C ^a   Thelwell, N J ^a   Priestman, A ^b   Butlin, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles arabiensis; Anopheles gambiae; Ecophenotypes; Homoplasy; Microsatellites; Natural populations; Null alleles

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0032162017     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Besansky, N. J., J. R. Powell, A. Caccone, D. M. Hamm, J. A. Scott and F. H. Collins. 1994. Molecular phylogeny of the Anopheles gambiae complex suggests genetic introgression between principal malaria vectors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:6885-6888.
2. Caccone, A., B. A. García and J. R. Powell. 1996. Evolution of the mitochondrial DNA control region in the Anopheles gambiae complex. Insect Mol. Biol. 5:51-59.
3. Callen, D. F., A. D. Thompson, Y. Shen, H. A. Phillips, R. I. Richards, J. C. Mulley and G. R. Sutherland. 1993. Incidence and origin of null alleles in the (AC)n microsatellite markers. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 52:922-927.
4. Coluzzi, M., V. Petrarca and M. Di Deco. 1985. Chromosomal inversion intergradation and incipient speciation in Anopheles gambiae. Boll. Zool. Pubb. Unione Zool. Ital. 52:45-63.
5. Coluzzi, M., A. Sabatini, V. Petrarca and M. A. Di Deco. 1979. Chromosomal differentiation and adaptation to human environments in the Anopheles gambiae complex. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 73:483-498.
6. Crampton, J. M., A. Warren, G. J. Lycett, M. A. Hughes, I. L. Comley and P. Eggleston. 1994. Genetic manipulation of insect vectors as a strategy for the control of vector-borne disease. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 88:3-12.
7. della Torre, A., L. Merzagora, J. R. Powell and M. Coluzzi. 1997. Selective introgression of paracentric inversions between two sibling species of the Anopheles gambiae complex. Genetics 146:239-244.
8. rd Eur. Multicoll. Parasitol., September 7-13, 1980, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
9. Estoup, A., C. Tailliez, J.-M. Cornuet and M. Solignac. 1995. Size homoplasy and mutational processes of interrupted microsatellites in two bee species, Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris (Apidae). Mol. Biol. Evol. 12(6):1074-1084.
10. Favia, G., A. della Torre, M. Bagayoko, A. Lanfrancotti, N. Sagnon, Y. T. Touré and M. Coluzzi. 1997. Molecular identification of sympatric chromosomal forms of Anopheles gambiae and further evidence of their reproductive isolation. Insect Mol. Biol. 6:377-383.
11. Feldman, M. W., A. Bergman, D. D. Pollock and D. B. Goldstein. 1997. Microsatellite genetic distances with range constraints: analytic description and problems of estimation. Genetics 145:207-216.
12. García, B. A., A. Caccone, K. D. Mathiopoulos and J. R. Powell. 1996. Inversion monophyly in African anopheline malaria vectors. Genetics 143:1313-1320.
13. Goldstein, D. B., A. R. Linares, M. W. Feldman and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. 1995. An evaluation of genetic distances for use with microsatellite loci. Genetics 139: 463-471.
14. Grimaldi, M.-C. and B. Crouau-Roy. 1997. Microsatellite allelic homoplasy due to variable flanking sequences. J. Mol. Evol. 44:336-340.
15. Höss, M. and S. Pääbo. 1993. DNA extraction from Pleistocene bones by a silica-based purification method. Nucleic Acids Res. 21:3913-3914.
16. Jarne, P. and P. J. L. Lagoda. 1996. Microsatellites, from molecules to populations and back. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11:424-429.
17. Lanzaro, G. C., L. Zheng, Y. T. Toure, S. F. Traore, F. C. Kafatos and K. D. Vernick. 1995. Microsatellite DNA and isozyme variability in a West African population of Anopheles gambiae. Insect Mol. Biol. 4:105-112.
18. Lehmann, T., W. A. Hawley and F. H. Collins. 1996a. An evaluation of evolutionary constraints on microsatellite loci using null alleles. Genetics 144:1155-1163.
19. Lehmann, T., N. J. Besansky, W. A. Hawley, T. G. Fahey, L. Kamau, and F. H. Collins. 1997. Microgeographic structure of Anopheles gambiae in western Kenya based on mtDNA and microsatellite loci. Mol. Ecol. 6:243-253.
20. Lehmann, T., W. A. Hawley, L. Kamau, D. Fontenilles, F. Simard and F. H. Collins. 1996b. Genetic differentiation of Anopheles gambiae populations from East and West Africa: comparison of microsatellite and allozyme loci. Heredity 77:192-208.
21. Milligan, P. M. J., A. Phillips, G. Broomfield and D. H. Molyneux. 1993. A study of the use of gas chromatography of cuticular hydrocarbons for identifying members of the Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) complex. Bull. Entomol. Res. 83:613-624.
22. Nauta, M. J. and F. J. Weissing. 1996. Constraints on allele size at microsatellite loci: implications for genetic differentiation. Genetics 143:1021-1032.
23. Nei, M. 1978. Estimation of average heterozygosity and genetic distance from a small number of individuals. Genetics 89:583-590.
24. Schug, M. D., T. F. C. Mackay and C. F. Aquadro. 1997. Low mutation rates of microsatellite loci in Drosophila melanogaster. Nat. Genet. 15:99-102.
25. Slatkin, M. 1995. A measure of population sub-division based on microsatellite allele frequencies. Genetics 139: 457-462.
26. Sokal, R. R. and Rohlf, F. J. 1995. Biometry, 3rd ed. W. H. Freeman & Co., New York.
27. Weber, J. L. and C. Wong. 1993. Mutation of human short tandem repeats. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2:1123-1128.
28. White, G. B. 1970. Chromosomal evidence for natural interspecific hybridization by mosquitoes of the Anopheles gambiae complex. Nature 231:184-185.
29. Wright, S. 1978. Evolution and the genetics of populations, Volume 4, Variability within and among natural populations. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.
30. Zheng, L., M. Q. Benedict, A. J. Cornel, F. H. Collins and F. C. Kafatos. 1996. An integrated genetic map of the African human malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Genetics 143:941-952.
31. Ziegle, J. S., Y. Su, K. P. Corcoran, L. Nie, P. E. Mayrand, L. B. Hoff, L. J. McBride, M. N. Kronik and S. R. Diehl. 1992. Application of automated DNA sizing technology for genotyping microsatellite loci. Genomics 14:1026-1031.