Historical environmental change in africa drives divergence and admixture of aedes aegypti mosquitoes:aprecursor to successful worldwide colonization?

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dc.creatorBennett, Kelly louise
dc.creatorShija, Fortunate
dc.creatorLinton, Yvonne-marie
dc.creatorMisinzo, Gerald
dc.creatorKaddumukasa, Martha
dc.creatorDjouaka, Rousseau
dc.creatorAnyaele, Okorie
dc.creatorHarris, Angela
dc.creatorIrish, Seth
dc.creatorHlaing, Thaung
dc.creatorP r a k a s h, A n i l
dc.creatorL u t w a m a, J u l i u s
dc.creatorWalton, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-20T07:07:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:26:18Z
dc.date.available2023-09-20T07:07:46Z
dc.date.created2023-09-20T07:07:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIncreasing globalization has promoted the spread of exotic species, including disease vectors. Understanding the evolutionary processes involved in such colonizations is both of intrinsic biological interest and important to predict and mitigate future dis- ease risks. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a major vector of dengue, chikungunya and Zika, the worldwide spread of which has been facilitated by Ae. aegypti’s adaption to human-modified environments. Understanding the evolutionary processes involved in this invasion requires characterization of the genetic make-up of the source population (s). The application of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to sequence data from four nuclear and one mitochondrial marker revealed that African populations of Ae. aegypti best fit a demographic model of lineage diversification, historical admixture and recent population structuring. As ancestral Ae. aegypti were dependent on forests, this population history is consistent with the effects of forest fragmentation and expansion driven by Pleistocene climatic change. Alternatively, or additionally, histori- cal human movement across the continent may have facilitated their recent spread and mixing. ABC analysis and haplotype networks support earlier inferences of a single out-of-Africa colonization event, while a cline of decreasing genetic diversity indicates that Ae. aegypti moved first from Africa to the Americas and then to Asia. ABC analy- sis was unable to verify this colonization route, possibly because the genetic signal of admixture obscures the true colonization pathway. By increasing genetic diversity and forming novel allelic combinations, divergence and historical admixture within Africa could have provided the adaptive potential needed for the successful worldwide spread of Ae. aegypti.
dc.identifierhttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5752
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/97744
dc.languageen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd.
dc.subjectApproximate Bayesian computation
dc.subjectArbovirus
dc.subjectDomestication
dc.subjectForest fragmentation
dc.subjectInvasive species
dc.subjectPleistocene climatic change
dc.titleHistorical environmental change in africa drives divergence and admixture of aedes aegypti mosquitoes:aprecursor to successful worldwide colonization?
dc.typeArticle

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