Genetic evidence for the origin of Aedes aegypti , the yellow fever mosquito, in the southwestern Indian Ocean

John Soghigian (1, 2) , Andrea Gloria-Soria (1, 3) , Vincent Robert (4) , Gilbert Le Goff (4) , Anna-Bella Failloux (5) , Jeffrey R Powell (1)

1 Yale University [New Haven]
2 NC State - North Carolina State University [Raleigh]
3 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
4 MIVEGEC - Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle
5 Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is often considered to be among the most dangerous animal in the world due to its ability to transmit several arboviruses (yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and Zika) that historically have taken a heavy toll on human health and continue to do so today (Powell, 2016). The European colonization of the New World was strongly affected by Ae. aegypti, and these events define the Americas today (McNeill, 2010). Beyond its direct role in disease transmission, this mosquito is easy to rear in the laboratory

Keywords: insects; invasive species; population genetics-empirical; systematics; population genetics—empirical

Domains: Virology

John Soghigian, Andrea Gloria-Soria, Vincent Robert, Gilbert Le Goff, Anna-Bella Failloux, et al.. Genetic evidence for the origin of Aedes aegypti , the yellow fever mosquito, in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Molecular Ecology, 2020, 29 (19), pp.3593 - 3606. ⟨10.1111/mec.15590⟩. ⟨pasteur-03124114⟩