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Komagata, O.

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bioRxiv2019

Genetic analysis of Aedes aegypti captured in two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo area during 2012-2015

Introduction of exotic diseases vectors into a new habitat can drastically change the local epidemiological situation. During 2012--2015, larvae and an adult of the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, were captured alive in two international airports serving to the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Because this species does not naturally distribute in this country, those mosquitoes were considered to be introduced from oversea via air-transportation. To infer the places of origin of those mosquitoes, we genotyped 12 microsatellite loci for which the most comprehensive population genetic reference is available. Although clustering by Bayesian and multivariate methods both suggested all those airport mosquitoes belong to Asia/Pacific population, they were not clustered into a single population. Also, there was variation in mitochondrial Cox1 haplotypes among mosquitoes collected in different incidents of discovery which indicated the existence of multiple maternal origins. Whereas we conclude there is little evidence to support overwintering of Ae. aegypti in the airports in this study, special attention is still desired to prevent the invasion of this prominent arbovirus vector.

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bioRxiv2019

High-throughput genotyping of a full voltage-gated sodium channel gene via genomic DNA using target capture sequencing and analytical pipeline MoNaS to discover novel insecticide resistance mutations

Insects voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) is the primary target site of pyrethroid insecticides. Various amino acid substitutions in the VGSC protein are known to confer insecticide resistance and are selected under insecticide pressure. In the genome, the VGSC gene consists of more than 30 exons sparsely distributed across a large genomic region, which often exceeds 100 kbp. Due to this complex genomic structure of gene VGSC, it is usually challenging to genotype full coding nucleotide sequences (CDSs) of VGSC from individual genomic DNA (gDNA). In this study, we designed biotinylated oligonucleotide probes via annotated CDSs of VGSC of Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. The probe set effectively concentrated (>80,000-fold) all targeted regions of gene VGSC from pooled barcoded Illumina libraries each constructed from individual A. albopictus gDNAs. The probe set also captured all homologous VGSC CDSs except tiny exons from the gDNA of other Culicinae mosquitos, A. aegypti and Culex pipiens complex, with comparable efficiency by virtue of the high conservation of VGSC at the nucleotide level. Furthermore, we developed an automated bioinformatic analysis pipeline to genotype VGSC after capture sequencing--MoNaS (Mosquito Na+ channel mutation Search)--which conducts mapping of reads, variant calling, and variant annotation for nonsynonymous mutations. The proposed method and our bioinformatic tool should facilitate the discovery of novel amino acid variants conferring insecticide resistance on VGSC and population genetics studies on resistance alleles with respect to the origin, selection, and migration of both clinically and agriculturally important insect pests.

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