Differing Transcriptomic Responses in High Titer versus Low Titer Mosquitoes after Oral Infection with Sindbis Virus.

Oral infection of mosquitoes by arboviruses often results in a large degree of variation in the amount of infectious virus between individual mosquitoes, even when the mosquitoes are from inbred laboratory strains. This variability in arbovirus load has been shown to affect virus transmissibility. Previously, our group described population genetic and specific infectivity differences between the virus populations found in high and low titer mosquitoes that had been orally infected with Sindbis virus (SINV).

Anopheles gambiae on remote islands in the Indian Ocean: origins and prospects for malaria elimination by genetic modification of extant populations.

The mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s. is a primary malaria vector throughout sub-Saharan Africa including the islands of the Comoros archipelago (Anjouan, Grande Comore, Mayotte and Mohéli).

Population Genetics of in Grande Comore Island.

is widely distributed across Africa, including on oceanic islands such as Grande Comore in the Comoros. This species is known to be mostly zoophylic and therefore considered to have low impact on the transmission of human malaria. However, has been found infected with , suggesting that it may be epidemiologically important.

Widespread phenotypic hypervariation in the enigmatic anchialine shrimp Barbouria cubensis (Decapoda: Barbouriidae).

Classification and evolutionary relationships among anchialine shrimp from the family Barbouriidae Christoffersen, 1987, has long been a topic of debate amongst crustacean taxonomists. To date, no study has examined morphological or molecular variation among populations of these enigmatic shrimp. The present study documents and analyzes patterns of widespread morphological variation within populations of Barbouria cubensis von Martens, 1872, from anchialine pools on three Bahamian islands.