Estimates of gene flow among Anopheles maculatus populations in Thailand using microsatellite analysis.

We report an analysis of seven microsatellite loci in eight populations of Anopheles maculatus mosquitoes dispersed over a distance of approximately 1,100 km in Thailand. A wide spectrum of genetic variability, with mean heterozygosities ranging from 0.738 to 0.

Microsatellite polymorphism in Anopheles maculatus, a malaria vector in Thailand.

Dinucleotide microsatellites were characterized from Anopheles maculatus, a species of mosquito that transmits malaria. A partial genomic library of An. maculatus, consisting of 3,960 kilobases (kb), was screened with either (GT)12 or (CT)12 probes.