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Fluorescent in situ Hybridization on Mitotic Chromosomes of Mosquitoes
Published on: September 17, 2012
Two chromosomal reference genome sequences for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles ( Nyssorhynchus) darlingi, Root, 1926
Mathilde Gendrin1, Katy Heu1, Marta Moreno2
1Microbiota of Insect Vectors Group, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Abstract:
We present two genome assemblies, each generated from individual female Anopheles ( Nyssorhynchus) darlingi (the malaria mosquito; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae), from wild populations in French Guiana and Peru. The genome sequences are approximately 180 megabases in span. The majority of each assembly is scaffolded into three chromosomal pseudomolecules with the X sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genomes were also assembled and are both 15.4 kilobases in length. The assemblies differ by two inversions in chromosome arm 2R.

