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1 January 2002 Analysis of the Population Structure of Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Western and Coastal Kenya Using Paracentric Chromosomal Inversion Frequencies
Luna Kamau, Richard Hunt, Maureen Coetzee
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Abstract

In total, 324 Anopheles funestus Giles specimens collected from seven houses in western Kenya and seven in coastal Kenya were scored for their paracentric chromosomal inversions with the aim of determining the level of genetic differentiation based on these inversions. Houses in each area were within a 2-km radius. The two areas are ≈700 km apart. Only inversions 2a, 3a, 3b, and 5a were found to be polymorphic. Levels of polymorphism varied greatly between inversions. There were no significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg expectations for samples from individual houses at one site or when data for houses in each area were pooled. Overall, the level of differentiation between western and coastal Kenya was significant, suggesting that the two populations are genetically isolated. Results based on inversion 2a alone were, however, not consistent with this conclusion. Founder effects and selection against the 2a inversion are discussed as possible explanations for this discrepancy.

Luna Kamau, Richard Hunt, and Maureen Coetzee "Analysis of the Population Structure of Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Western and Coastal Kenya Using Paracentric Chromosomal Inversion Frequencies," Journal of Medical Entomology 39(1), 78-83, (1 January 2002). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-39.1.78
Received: 17 January 2001; Accepted: 1 June 2001; Published: 1 January 2002
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KEYWORDS
Anopheles funestus
Chromosomal inversions
Kenya
malaria
variability
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