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SNP discovery and molecular evolution in Anopheles gambiae, with special emphasis on innate immune systemAnna Cohuet
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UR 016, BP 64501, 911 Avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
BMC Genomics 9:227. 2008..The discovery of polymorphisms is an essential step towards association studies of susceptibility to infection...- Plasmodium falciparum produce lower infection intensities in local versus foreign Anopheles gambiae populationsCaroline Harris
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UMR 224 Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs écologie, Genetique, Evolution et Contrôle, Montpellier, France
PLoS ONE 7:e30849. 2012..Future research on vector-parasite interactions must take into account the geographic scale of adaptation revealed here by conducting experiments in natural sympatric populations to give epidemiologically meaningful results... - Polymorphisms in Anopheles gambiae immune genes associated with natural resistance to Plasmodium falciparumCaroline Harris
Characterization and control of vector populations, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Montpellier, France
PLoS Pathog 6:e1001112. 2010..They emphasize the need to distinguish between infection prevalence and intensity and to account for the genetic specificity of vector-parasite interactions in dissecting the genetic basis of Anopheles resistance to human malaria... - Chromosomal inversions, natural selection and adaptation in the malaria vector Anopheles funestusDiego Ayala
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UR016 CCPV, Montpellier, France
Mol Biol Evol 28:745-58. 2011.... 
Intraspecific nucleotide variation in Anopheles gambiae: new insights into the biology of malaria vectorsIsabelle Morlais
Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Montpellier, France
Am J Trop Med Hyg 71:795-802. 2004..Our results show that SNP-based studies will be valuable in identifying the sequence variation associated with phenotypic traits shaping vector competence...- Low linkage disequilibrium in wild Anopheles gambiae s.l. populationsCaroline Harris
Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, Unité de Recherche 016 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
BMC Genet 11:81. 2010..Here, we aim to determine LD in wild An. gambiae s.l. populations in 4 genes potentially involved in mosquito immune responses against pathogens (Gambicin, NOS, REL2 and FBN9) using previously published and newly generated sequences... - Gene flow between chromosomal forms of the malaria vector Anopheles funestus in Cameroon, Central Africa, and its relevance in malaria fightingAnna Cohuet
Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, , 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Genetics 169:301-11. 2005..gambiae inversions can affect gene flow at marker loci. These results are relevant to strategies for control of malaria by introduction of transgenes into populations of vectors... - High malaria transmission intensity due to Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) in a village of savannah-forest transition area in CameroonAnna Cohuet
Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement LIN IRD, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
J Med Entomol 41:901-5. 2004..8% and an anthropophilic rate of 99.3%. These results confirm that in high agricultural activity areas, An. funestus can be, by far, the major malaria vector... - Anopheles and Plasmodium: from laboratory models to natural systems in the fieldAnna Cohuet
, UR 016, BP 64501, 911 Avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
EMBO Rep 7:1285-9. 2006..These results highlight the importance of following up discoveries in laboratory model systems with studies on natural parasite-mosquito interactions... 
Evolutionary forces on Anopheles: what makes a malaria vector?Anna Cohuet
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UR016, Characterization and control of vector populations, Montpellier, France
Trends Parasitol 26:130-6. 2010..We aim to point out selection pressures exerted by Plasmodium on Anopheles to improve its own transmission and discuss how the parasite might shape the vector to its benefit...- Species identification within the Anopheles funestus group of malaria vectors in Cameroon and evidence for a new speciesAnna Cohuet
Laboratoire de Lutte contre les Insectes Nuisibles, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Montpellier, France
Am J Trop Med Hyg 69:200-5. 2003..The species-specific PCR assay is supplemented by a primer specific to An. rivulorum-like and thus makes it possible to differentiate the five species of the An. funestus group and the newly defined taxon... - Conserved mosquito/parasite interactions affect development of Plasmodium falciparum in AfricaAntonio M Mendes
Imperial College London, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Pathog 4:e1000069. 2008..falciparum field isolates have been established by direct experimentation. Importantly, they validate for semi-field human malaria transmission the concept of parasite antagonists and agonists... - Morphological variability in the malaria vector, Anopheles moucheti, is not indicative of speciation: evidences from sympatric south Cameroon populationsChristophe Antonio-Nkondjio
Laboratoire IRD de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte Contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale, BP 288, Yaounde, Cameroon
Infect Genet Evol 2:69-72. 2002..moucheti natural populations is not indicative of speciation. With this respect, restricted migration of individuals across river systems may be a more important factor in shaping population genetic structure of A. moucheti... - Increased melanizing activity in Anopheles gambiae does not affect development of Plasmodium falciparumKristin Michel
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Section of Infection and Immunity, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:16858-63. 2006..falciparum. This study suggests immune evasion strategies of the human malaria parasite and emphasizes the need to study mosquito innate immune responses toward the pathogens they transmit in natural vector-parasite combinations... - Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis supports speciation within the Anopheles nili group of malaria vectors in CameroonHerman P Awono-Ambene
Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale OCEAC, Yaounde, Cameroon
Am J Trop Med Hyg 75:656-8. 2006..569 < Fst < 0.874, P < 10(-4)). These results fully agree with standard morphologic descriptions, and therefore provide further support for recent taxonomic classification within the An. nili group... - Molecular evidence of speciation between island and continental populations of Anopheles (Cellia) sundaicus (Diptera: Culicidae), a principal malaria vector taxon in Southeast AsiaIsabelle Dusfour
Institute of Research for Development, Center of Biology and Management of Populations, Montferrier sur Lez, France
J Med Entomol 41:287-95. 2004..This PCR identification method needs to be validated and adapted for the recognition of other possible species in the Sundaicus Complex... - Active dispersal by wild Triatoma infestans in the Bolivian AndesWilfrid Richer
Unité de Recherche 016, Institut de recherche pour le developpement IRD, Montpellier, France
Trop Med Int Health 12:759-64. 2007..The genetic differentiation detected between sylvatic and domestic populations suggests a limited short-term role of wild insects in the process of recolonization of insecticide-treated houses in the Andes... - Effect of infection by Plasmodium falciparum on the melanization immune response of Anopheles gambiaeLouis Lambrechts
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:475-80. 2007..falciparum relies on immune evasion rather than immuno-suppression to avoid being melanized and confirms that natural malaria transmission systems differ from laboratory models of mosquito-Plasmodium interactions...