Chromosomal plasticity and evolutionary potential in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto: insights from three decades of rare paracentric inversions

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Chromosomal plasticity and evolutionary potential in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto: insights from three decades of rare paracentric inversions

Marco Pombi¹^,2 , Beniamino Caputo¹^,2 , Frederic Simard³ , Maria A Di Deco¹^,2 , Mario Coluzzi¹ , Alessandra della Torre¹^,2 , Carlo Costantini⁴ , Nora J Besansky⁵ and Vincenzo Petrarca²^,6

¹Sezione di Parassitologia, Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

²Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

³Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Unité de Recherche 016, and Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, BP 545 Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

⁴Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Unité de Recherche 016, and Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale, BP 288 Yaoundé, Cameroon

⁵Eck Family Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

⁶Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma "Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:309doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-309


Published:	10 November 2008

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Table S1. Distribution of rare chromosomal inversions (RCIs) in population samples of Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto from 1975 to 2006.

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Figure S1. Cytogenetic map of the Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto ovarian polytene complement indicating numbered divisions, lettered subdivisions, and ten infradivisions per subdivision (vertical lines).

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Table S2. Cytogenetic positions of rare chromosomal inversions (RCIs) observed in this study, and the carrier's karyotype(s) (with respect to common inversions).

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