The Worldwide Spread of the Tiger Mosquito as Revealed by Mitogenome Haplogroup Diversity

In the last 40 years, the Asian tiger mosquito , indigenous to East Asia, has colonized every continent except Antarctica. Its spread is a major public health concern, given that this species is a competent vector for numerous arboviruses, including those causing dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, and...

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Published in:Frontiers in genetics 2016-11, Vol.7, p.208-208
Main Authors: Battaglia, Vincenza, Gabrieli, Paolo, Brandini, Stefania, Capodiferro, Marco R, Javier, Pio A, Chen, Xiao-Guang, Achilli, Alessandro, Semino, Ornella, Gomulski, Ludvik M, Malacrida, Anna R, Gasperi, Giuliano, Torroni, Antonio, Olivieri, Anna
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aedes albopictus
Genetics
haplogroups
mitochondrial DNA
Mitogenomes
tiger mosquito
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Summary:In the last 40 years, the Asian tiger mosquito , indigenous to East Asia, has colonized every continent except Antarctica. Its spread is a major public health concern, given that this species is a competent vector for numerous arboviruses, including those causing dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, and the recently emerged Zika fever. To acquire more information on the ancestral source(s) of adventive populations and the overall diffusion process from its native range, we analyzed the mitogenome variation of 27 individuals from representative populations of Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Phylogenetic analyses revealed five haplogroups in Asia, but population surveys appear to indicate that only three of these (A1a1, A1a2, and A1b) were involved in the recent worldwide spread. We also found out that a derived lineage (A1a1a1) within A1a1, which is now common in Italy, most likely arose in North America from an ancestral Japanese source. These different genetic sources now coexist in many of the recently colonized areas, thus probably creating novel genomic combinations which might be one of the causes of the apparently growing ability of to expand its geographical range.
ISSN:1664-8021
1664-8021
DOI:10.3389/fgene.2016.00208