Title |
Contemporary gene flow between wild An. gambiae s.s. and An. arabiensis
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Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-7-345 |
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Authors |
David Weetman, Keith Steen, Emily J Rippon, Henry D Mawejje, Martin J Donnelly, Craig S Wilding |
Abstract |
In areas where the morphologically indistinguishable malaria mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae Giles and An. arabiensis Patton are sympatric, hybrids are detected occasionally via species-diagnostic molecular assays. An. gambiae and An. arabiensis exhibit both pre- and post-reproductive mating barriers, with swarms largely species-specific and male F1 (first-generation) hybrids sterile. Consequently advanced-stage hybrids (back-crosses to parental species), which would represent a route for potentially-adaptive introgression, are expected to be very rare in natural populations. Yet the use of one or two physically linked single-locus diagnostic assays renders them indistinguishable from F1 hybrids and levels of interspecific gene flow are unknown. |
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