Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito.
Journal: BioRxiv : The Preprint Server For Biology
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Abstract
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form molestus , also known as the London Underground Mosquito. Population genomic analysis of ∼350 contemporary and historical samples counter the popular hypothesis that molestus originated belowground in London less than 200 years ago. Instead, we show that molestus first adapted to human environments aboveground in the Middle East over the course of >1000 years, likely in concert with the rise of agricultural civilizations. Our results highlight the role of early human society in priming taxa for contemporary urban evolution and have important implications for understanding arbovirus transmission.
Authors
Yuki Haba, Matthew Aardema, Maria Afonso, Natasha Agramonte, John Albright, Ana Alho, Antonio P Almeida, Haoues Alout, Bulent Alten, Mine Altinli, Raouf Amara Korba, Stefanos Andreadis, Vincent Anghel, Soukaina Arich, Arielle Arsenault Benoit, Célestine Atyame, Fabien Aubry, Frank Avila, Diego Ayala, Rasha Azrag, Lilit Babayan, Allon Bear, Norbert Becker, Anna Bega, Sophia Bejarano, Ira Ben Avi, Joshua Benoit, Saïd Boubidi, William Bradshaw, Daniel Bravo Barriga, Rubén Bueno Marí, Nataša Bušić, Viktoria Čabanová, Brittany Cabeje, Beniamino Caputo, Maria Cardo, Simon Carpenter, Elena Carreton, Mouhamadou Chouaïbou, Michelle Christian, Maureen Coetzee, William Conner, Anton Cornel, C Culverwell, Aleksandra Cupina, Katrien De Wolf, Isra Deblauwe, Brittany Deegan, Sarah Delacour Estrella, Alessandra Torre, Debora Diaz, Serena Dool, Vitor Dos Anjos, Sisay Dugassa, Babak Ebrahimi, Samar Y Eisa, Nohal Elissa, Sahar A Fallatah, Ary Faraji, Marina Fedorova, Emily Ferrill, Dina Fonseca, Kimberly Foss, Cipriano Foxi, Caio França, Stephen Fricker, Megan Fritz, Eva Frontera, Hans-peter Fuehrer, Kyoko Futami, Enas H Ghallab, Romain Girod, Mikhail Gordeev, David Greer, Martin Gschwind, Milehna Guarido, Teoh Guat Ney, Filiz Gunay, Eran Haklay, Alwia A Hamad, Jun Hang, Christopher Hardy, Jacob Hartle, Jenny Hesson, Yukiko Higa, Christina Holzapfel, Ann-christin Honnen, Angela Ionica, Laura Jones, Përparim Kadriaj, Hany Kamal, Colince Kamdem, Dmitry Karagodin, Shinji Kasai, Mihaela Kavran, Emad Khater, Frederik Kiene, Heung-chul Kim, Ilias Kioulos, Annette Klein, Marko Klemenčić, Ana Klobučar, Erin Knutson, Constantianus J Koenraadt, Linda Kothera, Pauline Kreienbühl, Pierrick Labbé, Itay Lachmi, Louis Lambrechts, Nediljko Landeka, Christopher Lee, Bryan Lessard, Ignacio Leycegui, Jan Lundström, Yoav Lustigman, Caitlin Macintyre, Andrew Mackay, Krisztian Magori, Carla Maia, Colin Malcolm, Ralph-joncyn Marquez, Dino Martins, Reem Masri, Gillian Mcdivitt, Rebekah Mcminn, Johana Medina, Karen Mellor, Jason Mendoza, Enrih Merdić, Stacey Mesler, Camille Mestre, Homer Miranda, Martina Miterpáková, Fabrizio Montarsi, Anton Moskaev, Tong Mu, Tim W Möhlmann, Alice Namias, Ivy Ng'iru, Marc Ngangué, Maria Novo, Laor Orshan, José Oteo, Yasushi Otsuka, Rossella Panarese, Claudia Paredes Esquivel, Lusine Paronyan, Steven Peper, Dušan Petrić, Kervin Pilapil, Cristina Pou Barreto, Sebastien Puechmaille, Ute Radespiel, Nil Rahola, Vivek Raman, Hamadouche Redouane, Michael Reiskind, Nadja Reissen, Benjamin Rice, Vincent Robert, Ignacio Ruiz Arrondo, Ryan Salamat, Amy Salamone, M'hammed Sarih, Giuseppe Satta, Kyoko Sawabe, Francis Schaffner, Karen Schultz, Elena Shaikevich, Igor Sharakhov, Maria Sharakhova, Nader Shatara, Anuarbek Sibataev, Mathieu Sicard, Evan Smith, Ryan Smith, Nathalie Smitz, Nicolas Soriano, Christos Spanoudis, Christopher Stone, Liora Studentsky, Tatiana Sulesco, Luciano Tantely, La Thao, Noor Tietze, Ryan Tokarz, Kun-hsien Tsai, Yoshio Tsuda, Nataša Turić, Melissa Uhran, Isik Unlu, Wim Van Bortel, Haykuhi Vardanyan, Laura Vavassori, Enkelejda Velo, Marietjie Venter, Goran Vignjević, Chantal B Vogels, Tatsiana Volkava, John Vontas, Heather Ward, Nazni Ahmad, Mylène Weill, Jennifer West, Sarah Wheeler, Gregory White, Nadja Wipf, Tai-ping Wu, Kai-di Yu, Elke Zimmermann, Carina Zittra, Petra Korlević, Erica Mcalister, Mara K Lawniczak, Molly Schumer, Noah Rose, Carolyn Mcbride
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