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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
Phlebotomus ariasi is one of the two sandflies transmitting the causative agent of zoonotic leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum, in France and Iberia, and provides a rare case study of the postglacial re-colonization of France by a Mediterranean species. Four DNA sequences were analysed-mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b), nuclear elongation factor-1? (EF-1?) and two anonymous nuclear loci-for 14-15 French populations and single populations from northeast Spain, northwest Spain, Portugal and Morocco. The presence of cryptic sibling species was not revealed by phylogenetic analyses and testing for reproductive isolation between sympatric populations defined by the two most divergent cyt b haplogroups. No locus was shown to be under positive directional or balancing selection and, therefore, molecular variation was explained demographically. Each nuclear locus showed shallow isolation by distance from Portugal to the French Pyrenees, but for both cyt b and EF-1? there was then a step change to the upland Massif Central, where leading-edge populations showed low diversity at all loci. Multiple genetic divergences and population expansions were detected by analyses of cyt b and dated to the Pleistocene. Endemicity of one cyt b sub-lineage suggested the presence of a refuge north of the Pyrenees during the last glacial period. Monopolization of the Massif Central by genetically differentiated populations of P. ariasi might possibly hinder the northwards spread of leishmaniasis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1365-2540
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
714-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Bayes Theorem, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Cytochromes b, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Demography, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Genetics, Population, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-History, Ancient, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Mediterranean Region, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Microsatellite Repeats, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Phlebotomus, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Population Dynamics, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Selection, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20736970-Sequence Analysis, DNA
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiple genetic divergences and population expansions of a Mediterranean sandfly, Phlebotomus ariasi, in Europe during the Pleistocene glacial cycles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't