Genome sequence of the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, reveals insights into its biology, genetics, and evolution

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is a highly successful invasive species that transmits a number of human viral diseases, including dengue and Chikungunya fevers. This species has a large genome with significant population-based size variation. The complete genome sequence was determined...

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Main Authors: Chen, Xiao-Guang, Jiang, Xuanting, Gu, Jinbao, Xu, Meng, Wu, Yang, Deng, Yuhua, Zhang, Chi, Bonizzoni, Mariangela, Dermauw, Wannes, Vontas, John, Armbruster, Peter, Huang, Xin, Yang, Yulan, Zhang, Hao, He, Weiming, Peng, Hongjuan, Liu, Yongfeng, Wu, Kun, Chen, Jiahua, Lirakis, Manolis, Topalis, Pantelis, Van Leeuwen, Thomas, Hall, Andrew Brantley, Jiang, Xiaofang, Thorpe, Chevon, Mueller, Rachel Lockridge, Sun, Cheng, Yan, Guiyun, Tu, Zhijian Jake, Fang, Xiaodong, James, Anthony A., Waterhouse, Robert
Other Authors: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105183