Anopheles stephensi is a human malaria vector species originating in South East Asia and parts of the Arabian peninsula but is now increasingly detected in Africa.
These specimens were reared in a colony seeded from samples collected in Djibouti and genotyped by researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine generating whole-genome sequence data which can be used to survey genetic diversity, population structure and evolution of An. stephensi, and to establish a foundation for ongoing genomic surveillance of An. stephensi populations.
This study contributes to a new dataset of An. stephensi individuals from ten countries.
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