Partial-arm translocations in evolution of malaria mosquitoes revealed by high-coverage physical mapping of the Anopheles atroparvus genome.
Gleb N ArtemovSemen M BondarenkoAnastasia N NaumenkoVladimir N StegniyMaria V SharakhovaIgor V SharakhovPublished in: BMC genomics (2018)
Our study demonstrates the power of physical mapping for understanding the genome evolution in malaria mosquitoes. The results indicate that syntenic relationships among chromosome elements of Anopheles species have not been fully preserved because of multiple partial-arm translocations.