Journal article
Population genomics of two invasive mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) from the Indo-Pacific
Thomas L Schmidt, Jessica Chung, Ann-Christin Honnen, Andrew R Weeks, Ary A Hoffmann
PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2020
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Abstract
The arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito) and Ae. albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) are both common throughout the Indo-Pacific region, where 70% of global dengue transmission occurs. For Ae. aegypti all Indo-Pacific populations are invasive, having spread from an initial native range of Africa, while for Ae. albopictus the Indo-Pacific includes invasive populations and those from the native range: putatively, India to Japan to Southeast Asia. This study analyses the population genomics of 480 of these mosquitoes sampled from 27 locations in the Indo-Pacific. We investigated patterns of genome-wide genetic differentiation to compare pathways of invasion and ongoing gene flo..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Awarded by Wellcome Trust UK
Awarded by German Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
AAH was supported by Program and Fellowship grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), no. 1037003 (https://www.nhmrc.gov.au).TLS and AAH were also supported by the Wellcome Trust UK, no. 108508 (https://wellcome.ac.uk).A-CH was funded the German Science Foundation (HO 5981/1-1) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.