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@article{Mwima:2024:10.1111/1755-0998.13949,
author = {Mwima, R and Hui, T-YJ and Kayondo, JK and Burt, A},
doi = {10.1111/1755-0998.13949},
journal = {Molecular Ecology Resources},
title = {The population genetics of partial diapause, with applications to the aestivating malaria mosquito Anopheles coluzzi},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13949},
volume = {24},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Diapause, a form of dormancy to delay or halt the reproductive development duringunfavourable seasons, has evolved in many insect species. One example is aestivation,an adult-stage diapause enhancing malaria vectors' survival during the dry season (DS)and their re-establishment in the next rainy season (RS). This work develops a novelgenetic approach to estimate the number or proportion of individuals undergoing dia-pause, as well as the breeding sizes of the two seasons, using signals from temporalallele frequency dynamics. Our modelling shows the magnitude of drift is dampenedat early RS when previously aestivating individuals reappear. Aestivation severely bi-ases the temporal effective population size (N e), leading to overestimation of the DSbreeding size by 1 (1 − )2 across 1 year, where is the aestivating proportion. Wefind sampling breeding individuals in three consecutive seasons starting from an RS issufficient for parameter estimation, and perform extensive simulations to verify ourderivations. This method does not require sampling individuals in the dormant state,the biggest challenge in most studies. We illustrate the method by applying it to apublished data set for Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes from Thierola, Mali. Our methodand the expected evolutionary implications are applicable to any species in which afraction of the population diapauses for more than one generation, and are difficult orimpossible to sample during that stage.
AU - Mwima,R
AU - Hui,T-YJ
AU - Kayondo,JK
AU - Burt,A
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.13949
PY - 2024///
SN - 1471-8278
TI - The population genetics of partial diapause, with applications to the aestivating malaria mosquito Anopheles coluzzi
T2 - Molecular Ecology Resources
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13949
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.13949
VL - 24
ER -
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