Interspecific hybridization and genetic variability of Phlebotomus sandflies

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-88

  Ghosh, K N ^a   Mukhopadhyay, J M ^a   Guzman, H ^b   Tesh, R B ^b   Munstermann, L E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid sterility; India; Isozyme electrophoresis; Israel; Leishmaniasis vectors; P. duboscqi; P. papatasi; Phlebotomus bergeroti; Population genetics; Sand flies

Indexed keywords

GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIANCE; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; ISOZYME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; VECTOR;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; ISOENZYMES; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS BERGEROTI; PHLEBOTOMUS DUBOSCQI; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI;

EID: 0033083285     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1999.00140.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Abbassy, M.M., Helmy, N., Osman, M., Cope, S.E. & Presley, S.M. (1995) Embryogenesis of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae): cell cleavage, blastoderm formation, and gastrulation. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 88, 809-814.
2. Abonnenc, E. (1972) Les phlébotomes de la Région Éthiopienne (Diptera: Psychodidae). Memoirs ORSTOM, 55, 1-289.
3. Alexander, J.B. (1987) Dispersal of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a Colombian coffee plantation. Journal of Medical Entomology, 24, 552-558.
4. Beach, R., Young, D.G. & Kiilu, G. (1986) New phlebotomine sand-fly colonies. II. Laboratory colonization of Phlebotomus duboscqi (Diptera: Psychodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 23, 114-115.
5. Brust, R.A. & Munstermann, L.E. (1992) Morphological and genetic characterization of the Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis complex (Diptera: Culicidae) in North America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 85, 1-10.
6. Cross, E.R., Newcomb, W.W. & Tucker, C.J. (1996) Use of weather and remote sensing to predict the geographic and seasonal distribution of Phlebotomus papatasi in Southwest Asia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 54, 530-536.
7. Dobzhansky, T. (1970). Genetics of the Evolutionary Process. Columbia University Press, New York & London. pp. ix+505.
8. Esseghir, S., Ready, P.D., Killick-Kendrick, R. & Ben-Ismail, R. (1997) Mitochondrial haplotypes and phylogeography of Phlebotomus vectors of Leishmania major. Insect Molecular Biology, 6, 211-225.
9. Fryauff, D. & Hanafi, H. (1991) Demonstration of hybridization between Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli) and Phlebotomus bergeroti Parrot. Parassitologia, 33 (Suppl. 1), 237-243.
10. Green, C.A., Munstermann, L.E., Tan, S.G., Panyim, S. & Baimai, V. (1992) Population genetic evidence for species A, B, C and D of the Anopheles dims complex in Thailand and enzyme electromorphs for their identification. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 6, 29-36.
11. Hanafi, H. & Fryauff, D. (1991) Laboratory bionomics of the newly colonized sandfly Phlebotomus bergeroti Parrot. Parassitologia, 33 (Suppl. 1), 291-297.
12. Kassem, H.A., Fryauff, D.J., El Sawaf, B.M., Shehata, M.G. & Shoumar, N.F. (1990) Electrophoretic comparison of the Leishmania vectors Phlebotomus papatasi and Phlebotomus langeroni (Diptera: Psychodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 27, 592-601.
13. Kassem, H.A., Fryauff, D.J., Shehata, M.G. & El Sawaf, B.M. (1993) Enzyme polymorphism and genetic variability of one colonized and several field populations of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 30, 407-413.
14. Lane, R.P. (1993) Sandflies. In: Medical Insects and Arachnids (ed. by R.P. Lane & R.W. Crosskey). Chapman & Hall, London. pp. 78-119.
15. Lane, R.P. & Fritz, G.N. (1986) The differentiation of the leishmaniasis vector Phlebotomus papatasi from the suspected vector P. bergeroti (Diptera: Phlebotominae). Systematic Entomology, 11, 439-445.
16. Lanzaro, G.C. & Warburg, A. (1995) Genetic variability in phlebotomine sandflies: possible implications for leishmaniasis epidemiology. Parasitology Today, 11, 151-154.
17. Lewis, D.J. (1982) A taxonomic review of the genus Phlebotomus (Diptera: Psychodidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology Series), 45, 121-209.
18. Lounibos, L.P. & Munstermann, L.E. (1981) Ecological and genetic separation of three sympatric Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Kenya coast. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 71, 639-648.
19. Madulo-Leblond, G., Killick-Kendrick, R., Killick-Kendrick, M. & Pesson, B. (1991) Comparison entre Phlebotomus duboscqi Neveu-Lemaire, 1906 et Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli, 1786): études morphologique et isoenzymatique. Parassitologia, 33 (Suppl. 1), 387-391.
20. Mahon, R.M., Green, C.A. & Hunt, R.H. (1976) Diagnostic allozymes for routine identification of adults of the Anopheles gambiae complex. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 66, 25-31.
21. Manchenko, G.P. (1994) Handbook of Detection of Enzymes on Electrophoretic Gels. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
22. Meredith, S.E.O. & Townson, H. (1981) Enzymes for species identification in the Simulium damnosum complex from West Africa. Tropenmedizine und Parasitologie, 32, 123-129.
23. Mery, A., Pasteur, N., Trouillet, J. & Vattier-Bernard, G. (1983) Polymorphisme des phosphoglucoisomerases chez quelques Phlébotomes Africains. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 11, 63-66.
24. Modi, G.B. & Tesh, R.B. (1983) A simple technique for mass rearing Lutzomyia longipalpis and Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the laboratory. Journal of Medical Entomology, 20, 568-569.
25. Morrison, A.C., Ferro, C., Morales, A., Tesh, R.B. & Wilson, M.L. (1993) Dispersal of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia. Journal of Medical Entomology, 30, 427-435.
26. Mukhopadhyay, J.M., Rangel, E.F., Ghosh, K.N. & Munstermann, L.E. (1997) Patterns of genetic variability in colonized strains of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) and its consequences. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 57, 216-221.
27. Munstermann, L.E. (1988) Biochemical systematics of nine Nearctic Aedes mosquitoes (subgenus Ochlerotatus, annulipes group B). Biosystematics of Haematophagous Insects (ed. by M.W. Service), pp. 133-147. Systematics Association Special, Vol. No. 37, Clarendon, Oxford.
28. Munstermann, L.E. (1994) Unexpected genetic consequences of colonization and inbreeding: allozyme tracking in Culicidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 87, 157-164.
29. Munstermann, L.E., Ghosh, K.N., Guzman, H., Tesh, R.B. & Mukhopadhyay, J. (1995) Hybridization among species of the sand fly group related to Phlebotomus papatasi parallels genetic profiles and geographic distribution (Abstract). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 53 (Suppl. 2), 144-145.
30. Munstermann, L.E., Morrison, A.C., Ferro, C., Pardo, R. & Torres, M. (1998) Genetic structure of local populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in central Colombia. Journal of Medical Entomology, 35, 82-89.
31. Nadim, A., Seyedi-Rashti, M.A. & Ashi, J. (1979) Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Saudi Arabia: an overview. Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique, 72, 237-244.
32. Nomenclature committee of the IUB. (1992) Enzyme Nomenclature. Academic Press, New York.
33. Snyder, T.P. (1982) Electrophoretic characterization of black flies in the Simulium venustum and verecundum species complexes (Diptera: Simuliidae). Canadian Entomologist, 114, 503-507.
34. Soule, M. (1976) Allozyme variation: its determinants in space and time. Molecular Evolution (ed. by F.J. Ayala), pp. 60-77. Sinhaur, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
35. Swofford, D.L. & Selander, R.B. (1981) BIOSYS-1: a FORTRAN program for the comprehensive analysis of electrophoretic data in population genetics and systematics. Journal of Heredity, 72, 281-283.
36. Trouillet, J., Ba, Y., Traore-Lamizana, M., Zeller, H.G. & Fontenille, D. (1995) Phlebotomines (Diptera, Psychodidae) du Senegal. Peuplement du Ferlo. Isolement d'arbovirus. Parasite, 3, 289-296.
37. Wallace, B. (1968) Topics in Population Genetics. W. C. Norton, New York. pp. x+481.
38. Ward, R.D., Bettini, S., Maroli, M., McGarry, J.W. & Draper, A. (1981a) Phosphoglucomutase polymorphism in Phlebotomus perfiliewi perfiliewi Parrot (Diptera: Psychodidae) from central and northern Italy. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 75, 653-661.
39. Ward, R.D., Pasteur, N. & Rioux, J.A. (1981b) Electrophoretic studies on genetic polymorphism and differentiation of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from France and Tunisia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 75, 235-245.