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Bartholomay LC Waterhouse RM Mayhew GF Campbell CL Michel K Zou Z Ramirez JL Das S Alvarez K Arensburger P Bryant B Chapman SB Dong Y Erickson SM Karunaratne SH Kokoza V Kodira CD Pignatelli P Shin SW Vanlandingham DL Atkinson PW Birren B Christophides GK Clem RJ Hemingway J Higgs S Megy K Ranson H Zdobnov EM Raikhel AS Christensen BM Dimopoulos G Muskavitch MA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2010,330(6000):88-90
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Waterhouse RM Kriventseva EV Meister S Xi Z Alvarez KS Bartholomay LC Barillas-Mury C Bian G Blandin S Christensen BM Dong Y Jiang H Kanost MR Koutsos AC Levashina EA Li J Ligoxygakis P Maccallum RM Mayhew GF Mendes A Michel K Osta MA Paskewitz S Shin SW Vlachou D Wang L Wei W Zheng L Zou Z Severson DW Raikhel AS Kafatos FC Dimopoulos G Zdobnov EM Christophides GK 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,316(5832):1738-1743
Mosquitoes are vectors of parasitic and viral diseases of immense importance for public health. The acquisition of the genome sequence of the yellow fever and Dengue vector, Aedes aegypti (Aa), has enabled a comparative phylogenomic analysis of the insect immune repertoire: in Aa, the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (Ag), and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Dm). Analysis of immune signaling pathways and response modules reveals both conservative and rapidly evolving features associated with different functional gene categories and particular aspects of immune reactions. These dynamics reflect in part continuous readjustment between accommodation and rejection of pathogens and suggest how innate immunity may have evolved. 相似文献
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Arensburger P Megy K Waterhouse RM Abrudan J Amedeo P Antelo B Bartholomay L Bidwell S Caler E Camara F Campbell CL Campbell KS Casola C Castro MT Chandramouliswaran I Chapman SB Christley S Costas J Eisenstadt E Feschotte C Fraser-Liggett C Guigo R Haas B Hammond M Hansson BS Hemingway J Hill SR Howarth C Ignell R Kennedy RC Kodira CD Lobo NF Mao C Mayhew G Michel K Mori A Liu N Naveira H Nene V Nguyen N Pearson MD Pritham EJ Puiu D Qi Y Ranson H Ribeiro JM Roberston HM Severson DW Shumway M 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2010,330(6000):86-88
Culex quinquefasciatus (the southern house mosquito) is an important mosquito vector of viruses such as West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus, as well as of nematodes that cause lymphatic filariasis. C. quinquefasciatus is one species within the Culex pipiens species complex and can be found throughout tropical and temperate climates of the world. The ability of C. quinquefasciatus to take blood meals from birds, livestock, and humans contributes to its ability to vector pathogens between species. Here, we describe the genomic sequence of C. quinquefasciatus: Its repertoire of 18,883 protein-coding genes is 22% larger than that of Aedes aegypti and 52% larger than that of Anopheles gambiae with multiple gene-family expansions, including olfactory and gustatory receptors, salivary gland genes, and genes associated with xenobiotic detoxification. 相似文献
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The African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is specialized for rapid completion of development and reproduction. A vertebrate blood meal is required for egg production, and multiple feedings subsequently allow transmission of malaria parasites, Plasmodium spp. Regulatory peptides from 35 genes annotated from the A. gambiae genome likely coordinate these and other physiological processes. Plasmodium parasites may affect actions of newly identified insulin-like peptides, which coordinate growth and reproduction of its vector, A. gambiae, as in Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, and mammals. This genomic information provides a basis to expand understanding of hematophagy and pathogen transmission in this mosquito. 相似文献
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Widespread divergence between incipient Anopheles gambiae species revealed by whole genome sequences
Lawniczak MK Emrich SJ Holloway AK Regier AP Olson M White B Redmond S Fulton L Appelbaum E Godfrey J Farmer C Chinwalla A Yang SP Minx P Nelson J Kyung K Walenz BP Garcia-Hernandez E Aguiar M Viswanathan LD Rogers YH Strausberg RL Saski CA Lawson D Collins FH Kafatos FC Christophides GK Clifton SW Kirkness EF Besansky NJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2010,330(6003):512-514
The Afrotropical mosquito Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto, a major vector of malaria, is currently undergoing speciation into the M and S molecular forms. These forms have diverged in larval ecology and reproductive behavior through unknown genetic mechanisms, despite considerable levels of hybridization. Previous genome-wide scans using gene-based microarrays uncovered divergence between M and S that was largely confined to gene-poor pericentromeric regions, prompting a speciation-with-ongoing-gene-flow model that implicated only about 3% of the genome near centromeres in the speciation process. Here, based on the complete M and S genome sequences, we report widespread and heterogeneous genomic divergence inconsistent with appreciable levels of interform gene flow, suggesting a more advanced speciation process and greater challenges to identify genes critical to initiating that process. 相似文献
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Genetic selection of a Plasmodium-refractory strain of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae 总被引：23，自引：0，他引：23
F H Collins R K Sakai K D Vernick S Paskewitz D C Seeley L H Miller W E Collins C C Campbell R W Gwadz 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1986,234(4776):607-610
The anopheline mosquito is the target in most malaria control programs, primarily through the use of residual insecticides. A mosquito was studied that is refractory to most species of malaria through a genetically controlled mechanism. A strain of Anopheles gambiae, which was selected for complete refractoriness to the simian malaria parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi, also has varying degrees of refractoriness to most other malaria species examined, including the human parasites P. falciparum, P. ovale, and P. vivax for which this mosquito is the principal African vector. Furthermore, the refractoriness extends to other subhuman primate malarias, to rodent malaria, and to avian malaria. Refractoriness is manifested by encapsulation of the malaria ookinete after it completes its passage through the mosquito midgut, approximately 16 to 24 hours after ingestion of an infective blood meal. Fully encapsulated ookinetes show no abnormalities in parasite organelles, suggesting that refractoriness is due to an enhanced ability of the host to recognize the living parasite rather than to a passive encapsulation of a dead or dying parasite. Production of fully refractory and fully susceptible mosquito strains was achieved through a short series of selective breeding steps. This result indicates a relatively simple genetic basis for refractoriness. In addition to the value these strains may serve in general studies of insect immune mechanisms, this finding encourages consideration of genetic manipulation of natural vector populations as a malaria control strategy. 相似文献
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Neafsey DE Lawniczak MK Park DJ Redmond SN Coulibaly MB Traoré SF Sagnon N Costantini C Johnson C Wiegand RC Collins FH Lander ES Wirth DF Kafatos FC Besansky NJ Christophides GK Muskavitch MA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2010,330(6003):514-517
Mosquitoes in the Anopheles gambiae complex show rapid ecological and behavioral diversification, traits that promote malaria transmission and complicate vector control efforts. A high-density, genome-wide mosquito SNP-genotyping array allowed mapping of genomic differentiation between populations and species that exhibit varying levels of reproductive isolation. Regions near centromeres or within polymorphic inversions exhibited the greatest genetic divergence, but divergence was also observed elsewhere in the genomes. Signals of natural selection within populations were overrepresented among genomic regions that are differentiated between populations, implying that differentiation is often driven by population-specific selective events. Complex genomic differentiation among speciating vector mosquito populations implies that tools for genome-wide monitoring of population structure will prove useful for the advancement of malaria eradication. 相似文献
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Stable integration and expression of a bacterial gene in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae 总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11
L H Miller R K Sakai P Romans R W Gwadz P Kantoff H G Coon 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1987,237(4816):779-781
Foreign DNA was successfully introduced into the germline of the African mosquito vector of malaria Anopheles gambiae. Stable integration of genes into the germlines of insects had been achieved previously only in Drosophila melanogaster and related species and required the use of the P element transposon. In these experiments with Anopheles gambiae, the plasmid pUChsneo was used, which contains the selectable marker neo gene flanked by P element inverted repeats. Mosquitoes injected with this plasmid were screened for resistance to the neomycin analog G-418. A single event of plasmid insertion was recovered. Integration appears to be stable and, thus far, resistance to G-418 has been expressed for eight generations. The transformation event appears to be independent of P. 相似文献
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Malaria parasites must complete a complex developmental cycle in an Anopheles mosquito vector before transmission to a vertebrate host. Sexual development of the parasite in the midgut is initiated in the lumen immediately after the mosquito ingests infected blood, and the resulting ookinetes must traverse the surrounding epithelial layer before transforming into oocysts. The innate immune system of the mosquito is activated during midgut invasion, but to date, no evidence has been published identifying mosquito immune genes that affect parasite development. Here, we show by gene silencing that an Anopheles gambiae leucine rich-repeat protein acts as an antagonist and two C-type lectines act as protective agonists on the development of Plasmodium ookinetes to oocysts. 相似文献
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The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Holt RA Subramanian GM Halpern A Sutton GG Charlab R Nusskern DR Wincker P Clark AG Ribeiro JM Wides R Salzberg SL Loftus B Yandell M Majoros WH Rusch DB Lai Z Kraft CL Abril JF Anthouard V Arensburger P Atkinson PW Baden H de Berardinis V Baldwin D Benes V Biedler J Blass C Bolanos R Boscus D Barnstead M Cai S Center A Chaturverdi K Christophides GK Chrystal MA Clamp M Cravchik A Curwen V Dana A Delcher A Dew I Evans CA Flanigan M Grundschober-Freimoser A Friedli L Gu Z Guan P Guigo R 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):129-149
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Niaré O Markianos K Volz J Oduol F Touré A Bagayoko M Sangaré D Traoré SF Wang R Blass C Dolo G Bouaré M Kafatos FC Kruglyak L Touré YT Vernick KD 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):213-216
Successful propagation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum within a susceptible mosquito vector is a prerequisite for the transmission of malaria. A field-based genetic analysis of the major human malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, has revealed natural factors that reduce the transmission of P. falciparum. Differences in P. falciparum oocyst numbers between mosquito isofemale families fed on the same infected blood indicated a large genetic component affecting resistance to the parasite, and genome-wide scanning in pedigrees of wild mosquitoes detected segregating resistance alleles. The apparently high natural frequency of resistance alleles suggests that malaria parasites (or a similar pathogen) exert a significant selective pressure on vector populations. 相似文献
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A proposed strategy to aid in controlling the growing burden of vector-borne disease is population replacement, in which a natural vector population is replaced by a population with a reduced capacity for disease transmission. An important component of such a strategy is the drive system, which serves to spread a desired genotype into the targeted field population. Endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria are potential transgene drivers, but infections do not naturally occur in some important mosquito vectors, notably Aedes aegypti. In this work, stable infections of wAlbB Wolbachia were established in A. aegypti and caused high rates of cytoplasmic incompatibility (that is, elimination of egg hatch). Laboratory cage tests demonstrated the ability of wAlbB to spread into an A. aegypti population after seeding of an uninfected population with infected females, reaching infection fixation within seven generations. 相似文献
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Malaria is a devastating public health menace, killing over one million people every year and infecting about half a billion. Here it is shown that the protozoan Plasmodium gallinaceum, a close relative of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, can develop in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Plasmodium gallinaceum ookinetes injected into the fly developed into sporozoites infectious to the vertebrate host with similar kinetics as seen in the mosquito host Aedes aegypti. In the fly, a component of the insect's innate immune system, the macrophage, can destroy Plasmodia. These experiments suggest that Drosophila can be used as a surrogate mosquito for defining the genetic pathways involved in both vector competence and part of the parasite sexual cycle. 相似文献
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Sharakhov IV Serazin AC Grushko OG Dana A Lobo N Hillenmeyer ME Westerman R Romero-Severson J Costantini C Sagnon N Collins FH Besansky NJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):182-185
In tropical Africa, Anopheles funestus is one of the three most important malaria vectors. We physically mapped 157 A. funestus complementary DNAs (cDNAs) to the polytene chromosomes of this species. Sequences of the cDNAs were mapped in silico to the A. gambiae genome as part of a comparative genomic study of synteny, gene order, and sequence conservation between A. funestus and A. gambiae. These species are in the same subgenus and diverged about as recently as humans and chimpanzees. Despite nearly perfect preservation of synteny, we found substantial shuffling of gene order along corresponding chromosome arms. Since the divergence of these species, at least 70 chromosomal inversions have been fixed, the highest rate of rearrangement of any eukaryote studied to date. The high incidence of paracentric inversions and limited colinearity suggests that locating genes in one anopheline species based on gene order in another may be limited to closely related taxa. 相似文献
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Ranson H Claudianos C Ortelli F Abgrall C Hemingway J Sharakhova MV Unger MF Collins FH Feyereisen R 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):179-181
The emergence of insecticide resistance in the mosquito poses a serious threat to the efficacy of many malaria control programs. We have searched the Anopheles gambiae genome for members of the three major enzyme families- the carboxylesterases, glutathione transferases, and cytochrome P450s-that are primarily responsible for metabolic resistance to insecticides. A comparative genomic analysis with Drosophila melanogaster reveals that a considerable expansion of these supergene families has occurred in the mosquito. Low gene orthology and little chromosomal synteny paradoxically contrast the easily identified orthologous groups of genes presumably seeded by common ancestors. In A. gambiae, the independent expansion of paralogous genes is mainly a consequence of the formation of clusters among locally duplicated genes. These expansions may reflect the functional diversification of supergene families consistent with major differences in the life history and ecology of these organisms. These data provide a basis for identifying the resistance-associated enzymes within these families. This will enable the resistance status of mosquitoes, flies, and possibly other holometabolous insects to be monitored. The analyses also provide the means for identifying previously unknown molecules involved in fundamental biological processes such as development. 相似文献
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della Torre A Costantini C Besansky NJ Caccone A Petrarca V Powell JR Coluzzi M 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2002,298(5591):115-117
Restrictions to gene flow among molecular forms of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto reveal an ongoing speciation process affecting the epidemiology of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. 相似文献
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Parisi M Nuttall R Naiman D Bouffard G Malley J Andrews J Eastman S Oliver B 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,299(5607):697-700
Sex chromosomes are primary determinants of sexual dimorphism in many organisms. These chromosomes are thought to arise via the divergence of an ancestral autosome pair and are almost certainly influenced by differing selection in males and females. Exploring how sex chromosomes differ from autosomes is highly amenable to genomic analysis. We examined global gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster and report a dramatic underrepresentation of X-chromosome genes showing high relative expression in males. Using comparative genomics, we find that these same X-chromosome genes are exceptionally poorly conserved in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. These data indicate that the X chromosome is a disfavored location for genes selectively expressed in males. 相似文献
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通过PCR方法从水稻cDNA文库中克隆到1个水稻AP2/EREBP类的转录因子基因Os922,并构建增强表达载体CoU-Os922.使用光照共培养方法将根癌农杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefaciens)EHA105转化到粳稻(Oryza sativa L.)秀水11的幼胚,得到转基因水稻植株.对所得潮霉素抗性水稻植株的PCR和Southern blot分析表明,Os922基因已整合到受体基因组中.T1代转基因植株根的生长被葡萄糖抑制,表现出对葡萄糖的敏感性,表明Os922基因可能与糖信号传导有关. 相似文献
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The Anopheles gambiae genome sequence will accelerate identification of new insect vector target genes leading to improved strategies for malaria control. 相似文献