In Silico Karyotyping of Chromosomally Polymorphic Malaria Mosquitoes in the Anopheles gambiae Complex
Love R, Redmond S, Pombi M, Caputo B, Petrarca V, della Torre A, Consortium T, Besansky N. In Silico Karyotyping of Chromosomally Polymorphic Malaria Mosquitoes in the Anopheles gambiae Complex. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2019, 9: 3249-3262. PMID: 31391198, PMCID: PMC6778791, DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400445.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInversion genotypesSingle nucleotide polymorphismsInversion polymorphismTag single nucleotide polymorphismsChromosomal inversion polymorphismTag SNP genotypesAnopheles gambiae complexParacentric inversion polymorphismEnvironmental heterogeneityChromosomal rearrangementsImportant phenotypesMalaria mosquitoesSilico karyotypingNatural variationGambiae complexMosquito speciesTraditional cytogeneticsCytogenetic methodsBiallelic genotypesSignificant vectorSNP genotypesGonotrophic stagesNucleotide polymorphismsGenomeHuman malariaA chromosome-scale assembly of the major African malaria vector Anopheles funestus
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