History of domestication and spread of Aedes aegypti--a review.
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...…mosquitoes feeding almost exclusively on humans (Bargielowski et al., 2013), larvae develop preferentially in artificial containers in close association with human habitation, often in urban settings (Lounibos, 2002; Honório et al., 2003; Brown et al., 2011, 2014; Powell and Tabachnick, 2013)....
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...As both species have been shown to inhabit a wide variety of urban and peri-urban settings with various degrees of intensity (Powell and Tabachnick, 2013; Li et al., 2014), it is likely that the simple urban/rural distinction of our urbanicity covariate did not sufficiently capture this variation…...
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...Lounibos (2002) provides an excellent synopsis of the importance of invasiveness in insect vectors....
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...The adaptation for oviposition preference may have been part of the overall evolution of domesticity that likely occurred in North Africa when ancestral sylvan Aaf became isolated from sub-Saharan Africa due to the Sahara Desert (Tabachnick 1991)....
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...Two scenarios have been put forward for the origin of the light-coloured domestic subspecies, Ae. aegypti aegypti (for ease of communication, from here on we refer to forest-breeding populations in sub-Saharan Africa as the classically defined formosus subspecies as Aaf and the light coloured populations outside of outside Africa as Aaa....
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...It is almost certain that the ancestor of the domestic form of Ae. aegypti lived in sub-Saharan Africa....
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...Here we focus on Aedes aegypti, a widespread species of mosquito that has both domestic populations as well as the ancestral type that still extant in sub-Saharan Africa....
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...The species was likely once more widespread including in forested northern Africa before the formation of the Sahara Desert....
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...Many of the patterns have close resemblance to single gene Mendelian mutations known for this species (Munstermann 1993)....
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