Genome-wide SNPs reveal the drivers of gene flow in an urban population of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus.

• Main Authors: Thomas L Schmidt (Author), Gordana Rašić (Author), Dongjing Zhang (Author), Xiaoying Zheng (Author), Zhiyong Xi (Author), Ary A Hoffmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aedes albopictus is a highly invasive disease vector with an expanding worldwide distribution. Genetic assays using low to medium resolution markers have found little evidence of spatial genetic structure even at broad geographic scales, suggesting frequent passive movement along human transportatio...