Recombination, the exchange of DNA between maternal and paternal chromosomes during
meiosis, is an essential feature of sexual reproduction in nearly all multicellular organisms …

Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

Mosquitoes' importance as vectors of pathogens that drive disease underscores the
importance of precise and comparable methods of taxa identification among their species …

Engineered gene drives, which bias their own inheritance to increase in frequency in target
populations, are being developed to control mosquito malaria vectors. Such mosquitoes can …

Deep coalescence and introgression make it challenging to infer phylogenetic relationships
among closely related species that arose through radiative speciation events. Despite …

The association of chromosome rearrangements (CRs) with speciation is well established,
and there is a long history of theory and evidence relating to “chromosomal speciation.” …

The Anopheles gambiae complex contains a number of highly anthropophilic mosquito
species that have acquired exceptional ability to thrive in complex human habitats. Thus …

Ants in the N eotropical genus S ericomyrmex M ayr cultivate fungi for food. Both ants and
fungi are obligate, coevolved symbionts. The taxonomy of S ericomyrmex is problematic …

Evolutionary variations generating phenotypic adaptations and novel taxa resulted from
complex cellular activities altering genome content and expression:(i) Symbiogenetic cell …

Genome change does not occur accidentally. The conventional Modern Synthesis view of
gradual evolution guided solely by natural selection fails to incorporate many important …