Novel molecular evidence of population structure in Anopheles (Kerteszia) bellator from Brazilian Atlantic Forest

• Main Authors: Kamila Voges, Marcela Possato Correa da Rosa, Betina Westphal-Ferreira, Mario Antonio Navarro-Silva, Carime Lessa Mansur Pontes, André Nóbrega Pitaluga, Carlos José de Carvalho-Pinto, Luísa DP Rona
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2019-05-01
• Series: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
• Subjects: Anopheles (Kerteszia) Bellator; bromeliad-malaria; Brazilian Atlantic Forest
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762019000100406&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1678-8060

Anopheles bellator is a primary malaria vector in the Atlantic Forest. Partial sequences of timeless and Clock genes were used to assess the genetic differentiation of five Brazilian populations, which showed strong population structure (e.g. high F ST values and fixed differences) in all pairwise comparisons between Bahia sample and the others from Paraná, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states. Also, the resulting phylogenetic trees clearly grouped the sequences from Bahia in a different cluster with high bootstrap values. Among southern and southeastern populations low levels of genetic differentiation were found suggesting a general stability of the genetic structure.