POPULATION-SPECIFIC STRUCTURE OF MALARIA MOSQUITOES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
The article deals with the species composition and structure of the population inversion of malarial mosquitoes in Central Europe: Germany, Poland, Belarus. In the studied samples there were revealed two species Anopheles: A. messeae and A. maculipennis. There was set inversion polymorphism and XL-3R-shoulders polytene chromosomes of A. messeae. The authors discuss regularities of the composition and the frequency of the inversion of options depending on the region of Europe and the characteristics of local environmental factors habitats.
Keywords: malarial mosquitoes, karyotype, inversion, homozygote, heterozygote
Issue: 8, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 8
Rubric: BIOLOGY
Pages: 70 — 74
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