High Levels of Admixture in Anopheles gambiae Populations from Côte d’Ivoire Revealed by Multilocus Genotyping
2022
Naminata Tondossama | Zanakoungo I. Coulibaly | Issouf Traoré | Bérenger A. Ako | Danielle D. Zoh | Chiara Virgillito | Négnorogo Guindo-Coulibaly | Paola Serini | Fabrice K. Assouho | Ibrahima Dia | Andre O. Touré | Maurice A. Adja | Beniamino Caputo | Alessandra della Torre | Verena Pichler
Anopheles coluzzii and An. gambiae&mdash:the two most recently radiated species of the An. gambiae complex and the major Afrotropical malaria vector species&mdash:are identified by markers in the X-centromeric IGS rDNA region. Putative IGS-hybrids are rarely found in the field, except in restricted areas where genomic studies have led to the hypothesis that the observed IGS-patterns are due to cryptic taxa rather than to hybridization between the two species. We investigated the genome-wide levels of admixture in two villages in Cô:te d&rsquo:Ivoire where high levels of IGS-hybrids have been detected, confirming unparalleled high frequencies in the coastal village. Genotyping of 24 Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) along the three chromosomes produced discordant results between the IGS-marker and the multilocus genotype obtained for AIMs across the whole genome (29%) as well as AIMs on chromosome-X (considered to be fundamental for species reproductive isolation) only (21%). Results highlight a complicated pattern of admixture that deserves deeper genomic analyses to understand better possible underlying causes (from extensive processes of hybridization to the existence of different cryptic taxa), and stress the need of developing advanced diagnostics for An. coluzzii, An. gambiae and putative new taxa, instrumental for assessing taxon-specific epidemiological characters.
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