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salgueiro, P., Ana Sofia Lopes, Cristina Mendes, Jacques Derek Charlwood, Arez, Ana Paula, João Pinto...Henrique Silveira (2016). Molecular evolution and population genetics of a Gram-negative binding protein gene in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato). Parasites & Vectors. 9 (515)

P. I. Salgueiro et al.,  "Molecular evolution and population genetics of a Gram-negative binding protein gene in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato)", in Parasites & Vectors, vol. 9, no. 515, 2016

@article{salgueiro2016_1713537931800,
	author = "salgueiro, P. and Ana Sofia Lopes and Cristina Mendes and Jacques Derek Charlwood and Arez, Ana Paula and João Pinto and Henrique Silveira",
	title = "Molecular evolution and population genetics of a Gram-negative binding protein gene in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato)",
	journal = "Parasites & Vectors",
	year = "2016",
	volume = "9",
	number = "515",
	doi = "10.1186/s13071-016-1800-2",
	url = "https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1800-2"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Molecular evolution and population genetics of a Gram-negative binding protein gene in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato)
T2  - Parasites & Vectors
VL  - 9
IS  - 515
AU  - salgueiro, P.
AU  - Ana Sofia Lopes
AU  - Cristina Mendes
AU  - Jacques Derek Charlwood
AU  - Arez, Ana Paula
AU  - João Pinto
AU  - Henrique Silveira
PY  - 2016
DO  - 10.1186/s13071-016-1800-2
UR  - https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1800-2
AB  - Background
Clarifying the role of the innate immune system of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae is a potential way to block the development of the Plasmodium parasites. Pathogen recognition is the first step of innate immune response, where pattern recognition proteins like GNBPs play a central role.

Results
We analysed 70 sequences of the protein coding gene GNBPB2 from two species, Anopheles gambiae (s.s.) and An. coluzzii, collected in six African countries. We detected 135 segregating sites defining 63 distinct haplotypes and 30 proteins. Mean nucleotide diversity (?) was 0.014 for both species. We found no significant genetic differentiation between species, but a significant positive correlation between genetic differentiation and geographical distance among populations.

Conclusions
Species status seems to contribute less for the molecular differentiation in GNBPB2 than geographical region in the African continent (West and East). Purifying selection was found to be the most common form of selection, as in many other immunity-related genes. Diversifying selection may be also operating in the GNBPB2 gene.
ER  -