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Dual African Origins of Global Aedes aegypti s.l. Populations Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA

Moore, Michelle; Sylla, Massamba; Goss, Laura; Burugu, Marion Warigia; Sang, Rosemary; Kamau, Luna W.; Kenya, Eucharia Unoma; Bosio, Chris; de Lourdes Munoz, Maria; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Black, William C. (PLOS, 2013-04)

Background: Aedes aegypti is the primary global vector to humans of yellow fever and dengue flaviviruses. Over the past 50 years, many population genetic studies have documented large genetic differences among global ...

Chromosome and Genome Divergence between the Cryptic Eurasian Malaria Vector-Species Anopheles messeae and Anopheles daciae

Naumenko, Anastasia N.; Karagodin, Dmitriy A.; Yurchenko, Andrey A.; Moskaev, Anton V.; Martin, Olga I.; Baricheva, Elina M.; Sharakhov, Igor V.; Gordeev, Mikhail I.; Sharakhova, Maria V. (MDPI, 2020-02-05)

Chromosomal inversions are important drivers of genome evolution. The Eurasian malaria vector Anopheles messeae has five polymorphic inversions. A cryptic species, An. daciae, has been discriminated ...

Reproductive Incompatibility Involving Senegalese Aedes aegypti (L) Is Associated with Chromosome Rearrangements

Dickson, Laura B.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Timoshevskiy, Vladimir A.; Fleming, Karen L.; Caspary, Alex; Sylla, Massamba; Black, William C. (PLOS, 2016-04)

Aedes aegypti, the primary vector of dengue, yellow fever and Zika flaviviruses, consists of at least two subspecies. Aedes aegypti (Aaa) is light in color, has pale scales on the first abdominal tergite, oviposits in ...

Structural divergence of chromosomes between malaria vectors Anopheles lesteri and Anopheles sinensis

Liang, Jiangtao; Cheng, Biao; Zhu, Guoding; Wei, Yun; Tang, Jianxia; Cao, Jun; Ma, Yajun; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Xia, Ai; Sharakhov, Igor V. (Biomed Central Ltd, 2016-11-25)

Background Anopheles lesteri and Anopheles sinensis are two major malaria vectors in China and Southeast Asia. They are dramatically different in terms of geographical distribution, host preference, resting habitats, ...

Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

Matthews, Benjamin J.; Dudchenko, Olga; Kingan, Sarah B.; Koren, Sergey; Antoshechkin, Igor; Crawford, Jacob E.; Glassford, William J.; Herre, Margaret; Redmond, Seth N.; Rose, Noah H.; Weedall, Gareth D.; Wu, Yang; Batra, Sanjit S.; Brito-Sierra, Carlos A.; Buckingham, Steven D.; Campbell, Corey L.; Chan, Saki; Cox, Eric; Evans, Benjamin R.; Fansiri, Thanyalak; Filipovic, Igor; Fontaine, Albin; Gloria-Soria, Andrea; Hall, Richard; Joardar, Vinita S.; Jones, Andrew K.; Kay, Raissa G. G.; Kodali, Vamsi K.; Lee, Joyce; Lycett, Gareth J.; Mitchell, Sara N.; Muehling, Jill; Murphy, Michael R.; Omer, Arina D.; Partridge, Frederick A.; Peluso, Paul; Aiden, Aviva Presser; Ramasamy, Vidya; Rasic, Gordana; Roy, Sourav; Saavedra-Rodriguez, Karla; Sharan, Shruti; Sharma, Atashi; Smith, Melissa Laird; Turner, Joe; Weakley, Allison M.; Zhao, Zhilei; Akbari, Omar S.; Black, William C.; Cao, Han; Darby, Alistair C.; Hill, Catherine A.; Johnston, J. Spencer; Murphy, Terence D.; Raikhel, Alexander S.; Sattelle, David B.; Sharakhov, Igor V.; White, Bradley J.; Zhao, Li; Aiden, Erez Lieberman; Mann, Richard S.; Lambrechts, Louis; Powell, Jeffrey R.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Tu, Zhijian Jake; Robertson, Hugh M.; McBride, Carolyn S.; Hastic, Alex R.; Korlach, Jonas; Neafsey, Daniel E.; Phillippy, Adam M.; Vosshall, Leslie B. (2018-11-22)

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infect more than 400 million people each year with dangerous viral pathogens including dengue, yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya. Progress in understanding the biology of mosquitoes and ...

Linked-read sequencing identifies abundant microinversions and introgression in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti

Redmond, Seth N.; Sharma, Atashi; Sharakhov, Igor V.; Tu, Zhijian Jake; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Neafsey, Daniel E. (2020-03-12)

Background Aedes aegypti is the principal mosquito vector of Zika, dengue, and yellow fever viruses. Two subspecies of Ae. aegypti exhibit phenotypic divergence with regard to habitat, host preference, and vectorial capacity. ...

Nix alone is sufficient to convert female Aedes aegypti into fertile males and myo-sex is needed for male flight

Aryan, Azadeh; Anderson, Michelle A.E.; Biedler, James K.; Qi, Yumin; Overcash, Justin M.; Naumenko, Anastasia N.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Mao, Chunhong; Adelman, Zach N.; Tu, Zhijian Jake (NAS, 2020-06-12)

A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Nix, a gene in the M-locus, was shown to be a male-determining factor (M factor) as somatic knockout ...

Improved reference genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus

Palatini, Umberto; Masri, Reem A.; Cosme, Luciano V.; Koren, Sergey; Thibaud-Nissen, Françoise; Biedler, James K.; Krsticevic, Flavia; Johnston, J. S.; Halbach, Rebecca; Crawford, Jacob E.; Antoshechkin, Igor; Failloux, Anna-Bella; Pischedda, Elisa; Marconcini, Michele; Ghurye, Jay; Rhie, Arang; Sharma, Atashi; Karagodin, Dmitry A.; Jenrette, Jeremy; Gamez, Stephanie; Miesen, Pascal; Masterson, Patrick; Caccone, Adalgisa; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Tu, Zhijian Jake; Papathanos, Philippos A.; Van Rij, Ronald P.; Akbari, Omar S.; Powell, Jeffrey R.; Phillippy, Adam M.; Bonizzoni, Mariangela (2020-08-26)

Background The Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus is globally expanding and has become the main vector for human arboviruses in Europe. With limited antiviral drugs and vaccines available, vector control is the primary ...

The Physical Genome Mapping of Anopheles albimanus Corrected Scaffold Misassemblies and Identified Interarm Rearrangements in Genus Anopheles

Artemov, Gleb N.; Peery, Ashley N.; Jiang, Xiaofang; Tu, Zhijian Jake; Stegniy, Vladimir N.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Sharakhov, Igor V. (Genetics Society America, 2017-01-01)

The genome of the Neotropical malaria vector Anopheles albimanus was sequenced as part of the 16 Anopheles Genomes Project published in 2015. The draft assembly of this species consisted of 204 scaffolds with an N50 scaffold ...

Physical Mapping of the Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) darlingi Genomic Scaffolds

Rafael, Míriam Silva; Bridi, Leticia Cegatti; Sharakhov, Igor V.; Marinotti, Osvaldo; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Timoshevskiy, Vladimir; Guimarães-Marques, Giselle Moura; Santos, Valéria Silva; da Silva, Carlos Gustavo Nunes; Astolfi-Filho, Spartaco; Tadei, Wanderli Pedro (MDPI, 2021-02-15)

The genome assembly of Anopheles darlingi consists of 2221 scaffolds (N50 = 115,072 bp) and has a size spanning 136.94 Mbp. This assembly represents one of the smallest genomes among Anopheles species. ...