Malaria is a major killer of children worldwide and the strongest known force for evolutionary
selection in the recent history of the human genome. The past decade has seen growing …

The suggestion that chromosomal rearrangements play a role in speciation resulted from the
observation that heterokaryotypes are often infertile. However, the first chromosomal …

The sustainability of malaria control in Africa is threatened by the rise of insecticide
resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the disease1. To gain a deeper …

Two new species within the Anopheles gambiae complex are here described and named.
Based on molecular and bionomical evidence, the An. gambiae molecular" M form" is …

Introduction The notion that species boundaries can be porous to introgression is
increasingly accepted. Yet the broader role of introgression in evolution remains contentious …

INTRODUCTION Control of mosquito vectors has historically proven to be an effective
means of eliminating malaria. Human malaria is transmitted only by mosquitoes in the genus …

We study the evolution of inversions that capture locally adapted alleles when two
populations are exchanging migrants or hybridizing. By suppressing recombination between …

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Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most debilitating diseases to man including
malaria, slee** sickness, filariasis, dengue, typhus and plague. Additionally these insects …

The global burden of vector-borne diseases accounts for more than 17% of infectious
diseases in humans. Rapid global expansion of previously obscure pathogens, such as Zika …