A review of UMAP in population genetics

A Diaz-Papkovich, L Anderson-Trocmé… - Journal of Human …, 2021 - nature.com
Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) has been rapidly adopted by the
population genetics community to study population structure. It has become common in …

Dual effector population modification gene-drive strains of the African malaria mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii

R Carballar-Lejarazú, Y Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Proposed genetic approaches for reducing human malaria include population modification,
which introduces genes into vector mosquitoes to reduce or prevent parasite transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary consequences of long-distance dispersal in mosquitoes

TL Schmidt - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Long-distance dispersal underlies the global threat of mosquito disease•Long-
distance dispersal and active flight should be analysed as distinct processes•Insecticide …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

ME Lauterbur, MIA Cavassim, AL Gladstein, G Gower… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

Visualizing population structure with variational autoencoders

CJ Battey, GC Coffing, AD Kern - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dimensionality reduction is a common tool for visualization and inference of population
structure from genotypes, but popular methods either return too many dimensions for easy …

The genetic architecture of target‐site resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in the African malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii

CS Clarkson, A Miles, NJ Harding… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides is a major concern for malaria vector control.
Pyrethroids target the voltage‐gated sodium channel (VGSC), an essential component of the …

Population genomic evidence of a putative 'far-west' African cryptic taxon in the Anopheles gambiae complex

B Caputo, CM De Marco, V Pichler, G Bottà… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The two main Afrotropical malaria vectors-Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae–are
genetically distinct and reproductively isolated across West Africa. However, populations at …

Resistance to a CRISPR-based gene drive at an evolutionarily conserved site is revealed by mimicking genotype fixation

S Fuchs, WT Garrood, A Beber, A Hammond… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
CRISPR-based homing gene drives can be designed to disrupt essential genes whilst
biasing their own inheritance, leading to suppression of mosquito populations in the …

Double drives and private alleles for localised population genetic control

K Willis, A Burt - PLoS Genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Synthetic gene drive constructs could, in principle, provide the basis for highly efficient
interventions to control disease vectors and other pest species. This efficiency derives in part …

Cryptic population structure and insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae from the southern Democratic Republic of Congo

TPW Dennis, P Pescod, S Barasa, LT Cerdeira… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffers from one of the highest malaria
burdens worldwide, but information on its Anopheles vector populations is relatively limited …