Evidence for temporal population replacement and the signature of ecological adaptation in a major Neotropical malaria vector in Amazonian Peru

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lainhart, William ^a,b   Bickersmith, Sara A ^b   Nadler, Kyle J ^a   Moreno, Marta ^c   Saavedra, Marlon P ^d   Chu, Virginia M ^a,b   Ribolla, Paulo E ^e   Vinetz, Joseph M ^c,f   Conn, Jan E ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Anopheles darlingi; Ecological adaptation; Human biting rate; Malaria; Microsatellites; Population replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOPHELES DARLINGI; ARTICLE; BED NET; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIGHWAY; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PERU; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION REPLACEMENT; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; RIVERINE; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INSECT VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; RAIN FOREST; TRANSMISSION; WING;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PERU; RAINFOREST; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84942432913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0863-4     Document Type: Article

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