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ASSESSING THE MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE BETWEEN ANOPHELES (KERTESZIA) CRUZII POPULATIONS FROM BRAZIL USING THE TIMELESS GENE: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF A SPECIES COMPLEX
Rona, Luísa D. P. et al. | Date Issued: 2009
Author
Rona, Luísa D. P.
Pinto, Carlos J. Carvalho
Gentile, Carla
Grisard, Edmundo C.
Peixoto, Alexandre A.
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil / Queen Mary University of London. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences. London, UK.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Abstract
Background: Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii was the most important vector of human malaria in southern Brazil between 1930–1960. Nowadays it is still considered an important Plasmodium spp. vector in southern and south-eastern Brazil, incriminated for oligosymptomatic malaria. Previous studies based on the analysis of X chromosome banding patterns and inversion frequencies in An. cruzii populations from these areas have suggested the occurrence of three sibling species. In contrast, two genetically distinct groups among An. cruzii populations from south/south-east and north-east Brazil have been revealed by isoenzyme analysis. Therefore, An. cruzii remains unclear.
Keywords in Portuguese
Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii
Brasil
Divergência molecular
Gene intemporal
Complexo de espécies
 
Keywords
Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii
Brazil
Molecular divergence
Species complex
Timeless gene
 
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BioMed Central
Citation
RONA, Luísa D. P. et al. Assessing the molecular divergence between Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii populations from Brazil using the timeless gene: further evidence of a species complex. Malaria Journal, v. 8, n. 60, p. 1-10, Apr. 2009.
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10.1186/1475-2875-8-60
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1475-2875