rDNA sequences of Anopheles species from the Iberian peninsula and an evaluation of the 18S rRNA gene as phylogenetic marker in anophelinae

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 508-517

  Bargues, M Dolores ^a   Latorre, Jose Manuel ^a   Morchon, Rodrigo ^b   Simon, Fernando ^b   Escosa, Raul ^c   Aranda, Carlos ^d   Sainz, Sandra ^a   Fuentes, Marius Vicent ^a   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c Consorci de Serveis Agroambientals de Les Comarques del Baix Ebre I Montsia ^*  (Spain)

^d Servei de Control de Mosquits   (Spain)

Author keywords

18S and ITS 2 rDNA sequences; Anopheles; Iberian Peninsula; Malaria; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ATROPARVUS; ANOPHELES PLUMBEUS; ANOPHELINAE; INVERTEBRATA;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EID: 33745233305     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585(2006)43[508:RSOASF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Baldari, M., A. Tamburro, G. Sabatinelli, R. Romi, C. Severini, P. Cuccagna, G. Fiorilli, M. P. Allegri, C. Buriani, and M. Toti. 1998. Introduced malaria in Maremma, Italy, decades after eradication. Lancet 351: 1248-1249.
2. Baldridge, G. D., and A. M. Fallon. 1991. Nucleotide sequence of a mosquito 18S ribosomal RNA gene. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1089: 396-400.
3. Bargues, M. D., and S. Mas-Coma. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of lymnaeid snails based on 18S rDNA sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14: 569-577.
4. Bargues, M. D., and S. Mas-Coma. 2002. Triatominae vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi: a molecular evolutionary framework based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Inf. Gen. Evol. 2: 279-280.
5. Bargues, M. D., A. J. Mangold, C. Muñoz-Antoli, J. P. Pointier, and S. Mas-Coma. 1997. SSU rDNA characterization of lymnaeid snails transmitting human fascioliasis in South and Central America. J. Parasitol. 83: 1086-1092.
6. Bargues, M. D., A. Marcilla, J. Ramsey, J. P. Dujardin, C. J. Schofield, and S. Mas-Coma. 2000. Nuclear rDNA-based molecular clock of the evolution of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), vectors of Chagas disease. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 95: 567-573.
7. Bargues, M. D., A. Marcilla, J. P. Dujardin, and S. Mas-Coma. 2002. Triatominae vectors of Chagas disease: a molecular perspective based on nuclear ribosomal DNA markers. In J. Alvar and J. R. Baker [eds.], Molecular tools for epidemiological studies and diagnosis of leishmaniasis and selected other parasitic diseases. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 96: 159-164.
8. Bargues, M. D., J. M. Latorre, R. Morchon, S. Sainz, R. Escosa, R. Melero-Alcibar, M. V. Fuentes, F. Simón, and S. MasComa. 2006. Molecular characterisation of Aedini species (Diptera: Culicidae) from Spain based on 18S rDNA sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. (in press).
9. Beckingham, B. 1982. Insect rDNA, pp. 205-263. In H. Busch and L. Rothblum [eds.], The cell nucleus. Academic, New York.
10. Beebe, N. W., R. D. Cooper, D. A. Morrison, and J. T. Ellis. 2000a. A phylogenetic study of the Anopheles punctulatus group of malaria vectors comparing rDNA sequence alignments derived from the mitochondrial and nuclear small ribosomal units. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17:430-436.
11. Beebe, N. W., R. D. Cooper, D. A. Morrison, and J. T. Ellis. 2000b. Subset partitioning of the ribosomal DNA small subunit and its effects on the phylogeny of the Anopheles punctulatus group. Insect Mol. Biol. 9: 515-520.
12. Blacklock, B., and H. F. Carter. 1920. The experimental infection in England of Anopheles plumbeus Stephens, and Anopheles bifurcatus L., with Plasmodium vivax. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 13: 413-420.
13. Blazquez, J. 1974. Investigaciones entomológicas sobre anophelismo en el delta del Rio Ebro. Revista de Sanidad e Higiene Publica 48: 363-377.
14. Brown, S. E., and D. L. Knudson. 1997. FISH landmarks for Aedes aegypti chromosomes. Insect Mol. Biol. 6: 197-202.
15. Collins, F. H., and S. M. Paskewitz. 1996. A review of the use of ribosomal DNA to differentiate among cryptic Anopheles species. Insect Mol. Biol. 5: 1-9.
16. Cooper, R. D., D. G. Waterson, M. J. Bangs, and N. W. Beebe. 2000. Rediscovery of Anopheles (Cellia) clowi (Diptera: Culicidae), a rarely recorded member of the Anopheles punctulatus group. J. Med. Entomol. 37: 840-845.
17. Cornel, A. J., C. H. Porter, and F. H. Collins. 1996. Polymerase chain reaction species diagnostic assay for Anopheles quadrimaculatus cryptic species (Diptera: Culicidae) based on ribosomal DNA ITS2 sequences. J. Med. Entomol. 33: 109-116.
18. Cuadros, J., M. J. Calvente, A. Benito, J. Arevalo, M. A. Calero, J. Segura, and J. M. Rubio. 2002. Plasmodium ovale malaria acquired in central Spain. Emerg. Inf. Dis. 8: 1506-1508.
19. De Rijk, P., and R. De Wachter. 1993. DCSE v2.54, an interactive tool for sequence alignment and secondary structure research. Comp. Appl. Biosci. 9: 735-740.
20. De Rijk, P., and R. De Wachter. 1997. RnaViz, a program for the visualisation of RNA secondary structure. Nucleic Acids Res. 25: 4679-4684.
21. Di Luca, M., D. Boccolini, M. Marinuci, and R. Romi. 2004. Intrapopulation polymorphism in Anopheles messeae (An. maculipennis complex) inferred by molecular analysis. J. Med. Entomol. 41: 582-586.
22. Djadid, N. D. 2001. rDNA ITS-2 sequence, Anopheles atroparvus, GenBank-EMBL accession number AF436064.
23. Djadid, N. D., T. Adeniran, M. Gordeev, and H. Townson. 2001. rDNA ITS-2 sequence, Anopheles atroparvus, Gen-Bank-EMBL accession number AY050640.
24. Encinas, A. 1982. Taxonomía y biología de los mosquitos del area salmantina (Diptera: Culicidae). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca: 1-436.
25. Fairley, T. L., C. W. Kilpatrick, and J. E. Conn. 2005. Intragenomic heterogeneity of internal transcribed spacer rDNA in Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles aquasalis (Diptera: Culicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 42: 795-800.
26. Fantini, B. 1994. Anophelism without malaria: an ecological and epidemiological puzzle. Parassitologia 36: 83-106.
27. Faraj, C., E. Adlaoui, M. Rhajaoui, and M. Lyagoubi. 2003. Estimation of malaria transmission in high-risk provinces of Morocco. East. Med. Health J. 9: 21-26.
28. Felsenstein, J. 1985. Confidence limits on phytogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39: 783-791.
29. Friedrich, M., and D. Tautz. 1997. An episodic change of rDNA nucleotide substitution rate has occurred during the emergence of the insect order Diptera. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14: 644-653.
30. Fritz, G. N., J. Conn, A. Cockburn, and J. Seawright. 1994. Sequence analysis of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer 2 from populations of Anopheles nuneztovari (Diptera, Culicidae). Mol. Biol. Evol. 11: 406-416.
31. Gordeev, M., I. Goriacheva, E. Shaikevitch, and M. Ejov. 2004. Intraspecific variability of the second internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal DNA among five Palaearctic species of anopheline mosquitoes. Eur. Mosq. Bull. 17: 14-19.
32. Harbach, R. E. 2004. The classification of genus Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae): a working hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships. Bull. Entomol. Res. 94: 537-553.
33. Hasegawa, M., H. Kishino, and T. Yano. 1985. Dating of the human-ape split by a molecular clock by mitochondrial DNA. J. Mol. Evol. 22: 160-174.
34. Hillis, D. M., and M. T. Dixon. 1991. Ribosomal DNA: molecular evolution and phylogenetic inference. Q. Rev. Biol. 66: 411-453.
35. Jetten, T. H., and W. Takken. 1994. Anophelism without malaria in Europe. A review of the ecology and distribution of the genus Anopheles in Europe, pp. 94-95. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers, Agricultural University Wageningen, The Netherlands.
36. Kampen, H., E. Maltezos, M. Pagonaki, K. P. Hunfeld, W. A. Maier, and H. M. Seitz. 2002a. Individual cases of authochthonous malaria in Evros Province, northern Greece: serological aspects. Parasitol. Res. 88: 261-266.
37. Kampen, H., J. Proft, S. Etti, E. Maltezos, M. Pagonaki, W. A. Maier, and H. M. Seitz. 2002b. Individual cases of authochthonous malaria in Evros Province, northern Greece: entomological aspects. Parasitol. Res. 89: 252-258.
38. Kampen, H., A. Sternberg, J. Proft, S. Bastian, F. Schaffner, W. Maier, and H. M. Seitz. 2003. Polymerase chain reaction-based differentiation of the mosquito sibling species Anopheles claviger s.s. and Anopheles petragnani (Diptera: Culicidae). Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 69: 195-199.
39. Karch, S. 1997. Breeding of Anopheles plumbeus in tyres in France. J. Vector Ecol. 21: 14.
40. Kasap, M. 1990. Comparison of experimental infectivity and development of Plasmodium vivax in Anopheles sacharovi and An. superpictus in Turkey. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 42: 111-117.
41. Krueger, A., A. Rech, S. U. Xin-Zhuan, and E. Tannich. 2001. Two cases of authochthonous Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Germany with evidence for local transmission by indigenous Anopheles plumbeus. Trop. Med. Int. Health 6: 983-985.
42. Kumar, S., K. Tamura, and M. Nei. 2004. MEGA 3: integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief. Bioinform. 5: 150-163.
43. Linton, Y. M., L. Smith, and R. E. Harbach. 2002. Molecular confirmation of sympatric populations of Anopheles messeae and Anopheles atroparvus overwintering in Kent, southeast England. Eur. Mosq. Bull. 13: 8-16.
44. Luton, K., D. Walker, and D. Blair. 1992. Comparisons of ribosomal internal transcribed spacers from two congeneric species of flukes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Digenea). Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 56: 323-328.
45. Mangold, A. J., M. D. Bargues, and S. Mas-Coma. 1998. 18S rRNA gene sequences and phylogenetic relationships of European hard-tick species (Acari: Ixodidae). Parasitol. Res. 84: 31-37.
46. Marchant, P.; W. Eling, G. J. van Gemert, C. J. Leake, and C. F. Curtis. 1998. Could British mosquitoes transmit falciparum malaria? Parasitol. Today 14: 344-345.
47. Marinucci, M., R. Romi, P. Mancini, M. Di Luca, and C. Severini. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships of seven Palearctic members of the maculipennis complex inferred from ITS2 sequence analysis. Insect Mol. Biol. 8: 469-480.
48. Mathews, D. H., J. Sabina, M. Zuker, and D. H. Turner. 1999. Expanded sequence dependence of thermodynamic parameters improves prediction of RNA secondary structure. J. Mol. Biol. 21: 911-940.
49. Miller, B. R., M. B. Crabtree, and H. M. Savage. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of the Culicomorpha inferred from 18S and 5.8S ribosomal DNA sequences (Diptera: Nematocera). Insect Mol. Biol. 6: 105-114.
50. Morales-Hojas, R., R. J. Post, M. D. Wilson, and R. A. Cheke. 2002. Completion of the sequence of the nuclear ribosomal DNA subunit of Simulium sanctipauli, with descriptions of the 18S, 28S genes and the IGS. Med. Vet. Entomol. 16: 386-394.
51. Muentener, P., P. Schlagenhauf, and R. Steffen. 1999. Imported malaria (1985-95): trends and perspectives. Bull. World Health Organ. 77: 560-566.
52. Nicolescu, G., Y. M. Linton, A. Vladimirescu, T. M. Howard, and R. E. Harbach. 2004. Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence. Bull. Entomol. Res. 94: 525-535.
53. Olsen, G. J., and C. R. Woese. 1993. Ribosomal RNA: a key to phylogeny. FASEB J. 7: 113-123.
54. Onyabe, D. Y., and J. E. Conn. 1999. Intragenomic heterogeneity of a ribosomal DNA spacer (ITS2) varies regionally in the Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles nuneztovari (Diptera: Culicidae). Insect Mol. Biol. 8: 435-442.
55. Porter, C. H., and F. H. Collins. 1991. Species diagnostic-differences in a ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer from the sibling species Anopheles freeborni and Anopheles hermsi (Diptera: Culicidae). Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 45: 271-279.
56. Porter, C. H., and F. H. Collins. 1996. Phylogeny of Nearctic members of the Anopheles maculipennis species group derived from the D2 variable region of 28S ribosomal RNA. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 6: 178-188.
57. Posada, D., and K. A. Crandall. 1998. Modeltest: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14: 817-818.
58. Proft, J., W. A. Maier, and H. Kampen. 1999. Identification of six sibling species of the Anopheles maculipennis complex (Diptera: Culicidae) by a polymerase chain reaction assay. Parasitol. Res. 85: 837-843.
59. Rees, A. T., and K. R. Snow. 1990. The distribution of the genus Anopheles in Britain. Dipterists Digest 6: 7-19.
60. Ribeiro, H., H. C. Ramos, C. A. Pires, and R. A. Capela. 1988. An annotated checklist of the mosquitoes of continental Portugal (Diptera, Culicidae). In Proceedings, Congreso Ibérico de Entomologia. 3: 233-254.
61. Romi, R. 1999. Anopheles labranchiae, an important malaria vector in Italy, and other potential malaria vectors in southern Europe. Eur. Mosq. Bull. 4: 8-10.
62. Romi, R., G. Sabatinelli, and G. Majori. 2001. Could malaria reappear in Italy? Emerg. Inf. Dis. 7: 915-919.
63. Sallum, M.A.M., T. R. Schultz, P. G. Foster, K. Aronstein, R. A. Wirtz, and R. C. Wilkerson. 2002. Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Syst. Entomol. 27: 361-382.
64. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning. A laboratory manual, 2nd ed., vols. I, II, and III. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
65. Sanger, F., S. Nicklen, and A. R. Coulson. 1977. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 74: 5463-5467.
66. Schaffner, E., G. Angel, B. Geoffroy, J. P. Hervy, A. Rhaiem, and J. Brunhes. 2001. Les moustiques d'Europe. Logiciel d'identification et d'enseignement. CD-ROM, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) Editions & EID Méditerranée, Paris, France.
67. Shute, P. G. 1954. Indigenous Plasmodium vivax malaria in London believed to have been transmitted by Anopheles plumbeus. Mo. Bull. Min. Health Public Health Lab. Serv. 13: 48-51.
68. Swofford, D. L. 2001. PAUP*: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods), version 4. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
69. Thompson, J. D., D. G. Higgins, and T. J. Gibson. 1994. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity and progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, positions-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22: 4673-4680.
70. Van De Peer, Y., E. Robbrecht, S. De Hoog, A. Caers, P. De Rijk, and R. De Wachter. 1999. Database on the structure of small ribosomal subunit RNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 27: 179-183.
71. Wesson, D. M., C. H. Porter, and F. H. Collins. 1992. Sequence and secondary structure comparison of ITS rDNA in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 1: 253-269.
72. White, G. B. 1978. Systematic reappraisal of the Anopheles maculipennis complex. Mosq. Syst. 10: 13-44.
73. Wilkerson, R. C., J. F. Reinert, and C. Li. 2004. Ribosomal DNA ITS2 sequences differentiate six species in the Anopheles crucians complex (Diptera: Culicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 41: 392-401.
74. Wuyts, J., P. De Rijk, Y. Van De Peer, G. Pison, P. Pousseeuw, and R. De Wachter. 2000. Comparative analysis of more than 3000 sequences reveals the existence of two pseudoknots in area V4 of eukaryotic small subunit ribosomal RNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 28: 4698-4708.