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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 75(2), 2006, pp. 246-250
Copyright © 2006 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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OVIPOSITION BEHAVIOR OF FEMALE ANOPHELES GAMBIAE IN WESTERN KENYA INFERRED FROM MICROSATELLITE MARKERS

HONG CHEN*, ULRIKE FILLINGER, AND GUIYUN YAN
Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California; Mbita Point Research and Training Center, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nyanza Province, Kenya

Anopheles gambiae females in a relatively isolated hut and all larvae from larval habitats within 100 m of the hut were collected in August 2001 in western Kenya. Among 42 aquatic habitats, 16 had A. gambiae larvae. Two hundred fifty larvae and 58 adults were genotyped using nine microsatellite markers to infer sibling relationship between the larvae and maternity between the females and larvae. The pairwise genetic relatedness of A. gambiae larvae per habitat ranged from –0.4112 to 0.9375, indicating that full siblings, half siblings, and genetically unrelated individuals presented at those habitats with multiple larvae. From a likelihood analysis, it was estimated that 56.6% of females had larvae in multiple habitats. These results substantiate that one A. gambiae female uses multiple breeding sites for oviposition, and thus, average genetic relatedness for breeding sites with high larval populations tends to be low.

Received February 6, 2006. Accepted for publication April 23, 2006.

Acknowledgment: The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript.

Financial support: This research was supported by NIH Grant D43 TW01505 and UNDP/WORLD BANK/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases Grant A10429.

* Address correspondence to Hong Chen, Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. E-mail: entomail{at}gmail.com

Authors’ addresses: Hong Chen, Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, Telephone and Fax: 949-824-0249, E-mail: entomail{at}gmail.com. Ulrike Fillinger, Mbita Point Research and Training Center, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, PO Box 30, Mbita, Suba District, Nyanza Province, Kenya, E-mail: ufillinger{at}mbita.mimcom.net. Guiyun Yan, Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, Telephone: 949-824-0175, E-mail: guiyuny{at}uci.edu.

Reprint requests: Hong Chen, 3501 Hewitt Hall, Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. E-mail: entomail{at}gmail.com.






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