BMC Evolutionary Biology

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The molecular evolution of four anti-malarial immune genes in the Anopheles gambiae species complex

Aristeidis Parmakelis1,4*, Michel A Slotman1, Jonathon C Marshall1,5, Parfait H Awono-Ambene2, Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio2, Frederic Simard2,3, Adalgisa Caccone1 and Jeffrey R Powell1

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1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, 06511, New Haven, CT, USA

2 Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte Contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), P.O. Box 288, Yaoundé, Cameroon

3 Institute de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR016, BP 1857, Yaoundé, Cameroon

4 Department of Biology, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, GR-71409, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

5 Department of Biology, Southern Utah University, Science Center 105, 84720, Cedar City, UT, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:79 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-79

Published: 6 March 2008

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Gambicin Bayesian Inference Tree. 50% majority-rule consensus Bayesian (unrooted) tree of gambicin. Numbers on branches are the posterior probabilities of clades, only values above 0.5 are presented. Species names have been abbreviated as follows: ARA: An. arabiensis, BWA: An. bwambae, GAM: An. gambiae, MEL: An. melas, MER: An. merus, and QUA: An. quadriannulatus. The number following the species abbreviation refers to the individual specimen code, whereas the letters A and B differentiate between the two alleles of a single individual specimen. Details of the Bayesian analysis can be provided upon request.

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FBN9 Bayesian Inference Tree. 50% majority-rule consensus Bayesian (unrooted) tree of FBN9. Numbers on branches are the posterior probabilities of clades, only values above 0.5 are presented. Species names have been abbreviated as follows: ARA: An. arabiensis, BWA: An. bwambae, GAM: An. gambiae, MEL: An. melas, MER: An. merus, and QUA: An. quadriannulatus. The number following the species abbreviation refers to the individual specimen code, whereas the letters A and B differentiate between the two alleles of a single individual specimen. Details of the Bayesian analysis can be provided upon request.

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