Multiple Origins of Knockdown Resistance Mutations in the Afrotropical Mosquito Vector Anopheles gambiae

João Pinto; Amy Lynd; José L. Vicente; Federica Santolamazza; Nadine P. Randle; Gabriele Gentile; Marta Moreno; Frédéric Simard; Jacques Derek Charlwood; Virgílio E. do Rosário; Adalgisa Caccone; Alessandra della Torre; Martin J. Donnelly

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001243

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Multiple Origins of Knockdown Resistance Mutations in the Afrotropical Mosquito Vector Anopheles gambiae

João Pinto ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jpinto@ihmt.unl.pt

Affiliations Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal, Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Amy Lynd,

Affiliation Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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José L. Vicente,

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
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Federica Santolamazza,

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Sezione di Parassitologia, Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Università di Roma - La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Nadine P. Randle,

Affiliation Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Gabriele Gentile,

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma - Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Marta Moreno,

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Medicina Tropical, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Frédéric Simard,

Affiliations Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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Jacques Derek Charlwood,

Affiliation DBL – Institute for Health Research and Development, Charlottenlund, Denmark
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Virgílio E. do Rosário,

Affiliation Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
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Adalgisa Caccone,

Affiliation Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Alessandra della Torre,

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Sezione di Parassitologia, Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Università di Roma - La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Martin J. Donnelly

Affiliation Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Multiple Origins of Knockdown Resistance Mutations in the Afrotropical Mosquito Vector Anopheles gambiae

João Pinto,
Amy Lynd,
José L. Vicente,
Federica Santolamazza,
Nadine P. Randle,
Gabriele Gentile,
Marta Moreno,
Frédéric Simard,
Jacques Derek Charlwood,
Virgílio E. do Rosário

Published: November 28, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001243

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