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SUBMITTER: Riehle MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065189 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20110201 6017
Population subgroups of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae have not been comprehensively characterized owing to the lack of unbiased sampling methods. In the arid savanna zone of West Africa, where potential oviposition sites are scarce, widespread collection from larval pools in the peridomestic human habitat yielded a comprehensive genetic survey of local A. gambiae population subgroups, independent of adult resting behavior and ecological preference. A previously unknown subgroup of ...[more]