Lineage divergence detected in the malaria vector Anopheles marajoara (Diptera: Culicidae) in Amazonian Brazil

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Povoa Marinete M, Lima Jose BP, Sallum Maria A, Ruiz John F, Wilkerson Richard C, Lehr Margaret A, McKeon Sascha N, Conn Jan E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2010
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Folmer
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-271; https://doaj.org/article/99a5f937e9e24d1f91c6e5d30c786138

Abstract Background Cryptic species complexes are common among anophelines. Previous phylogenetic analysis based on the complete mtDNA COI gene sequences detected paraphyly in the Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles marajoara . The "Folmer region" detects a single taxon using a 3% diverge...