Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Ecological Divergence between Incipient Species of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Colince Kamdem; Billy Tene Fossog; Frédéric Simard; Joachim Etouna; Cyrille Ndo; Pierre Kengne; Philippe Boussès; François-Xavier Etoa; Parfait Awono-Ambene; Didier Fontenille; Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio; Nora J. Besansky; Carlo Costantini

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039453

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Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Ecological Divergence between Incipient Species of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Colince Kamdem,

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Department of Biochemistry, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
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Billy Tene Fossog,

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Department of Biochemistry, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
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Frédéric Simard,

Affiliation UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France
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Joachim Etouna,

Affiliation Department of Geographical Research, Institut National de Cartographie (INC), Yaounde, Cameroon
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Cyrille Ndo,

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon, Department of Biochemistry, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
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Pierre Kengne,

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon
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Philippe Boussès,

Affiliation UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France
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François-Xavier Etoa,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
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Parfait Awono-Ambene,

Affiliation Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon
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Didier Fontenille,

Affiliation UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France
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Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio,

Affiliation Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon
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Nora J. Besansky,

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
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Carlo Costantini

* E-mail: carlo.costantini@ird.fr

Affiliations UMR MIVEGEC (UM1, UM2, CNRS 5290, IRD 224), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaounde, Cameroon
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Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Ecological Divergence between Incipient Species of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Colince Kamdem,
Billy Tene Fossog,
Frédéric Simard,
Joachim Etouna,
Cyrille Ndo,
Pierre Kengne,
Philippe Boussès,
François-Xavier Etoa,
Parfait Awono-Ambene,
Didier Fontenille

Published: June 22, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039453

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