Anopheles gambiae

Taxonomy ID: 7165 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid7165)

current name

Anopheles gambiae  Giles, 1902

equivalent:

Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto

Genbank common name: African malaria mosquito
NCBI BLAST name: mosquitos
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 5 (Invertebrate Mitochondrial)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

Anopheles gambiae S

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Panarthropoda; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Hexapoda; Insecta; Dicondylia; Pterygota; Neoptera; Endopterygota; Diptera; Nematocera; Culicomorpha; Culicoidea; Culicidae; Anophelinae; Anopheles; Cellia; Pyretophorus; gambiae species complex

Comments and References:

image:Anopheles gambiae Image by from Wikimedia Commons under a Public Domain license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

Favia et al. (2001) Favia,G.,A., Lanfrancotti,L., Spanos,I., Siden-Kiamos, and Louis,C. (2001) "Molecular characterization of ribosomal DNA polymorphisms discriminating among chromosomal forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s." Insect Mol. Biol. 10:19-23 [Anopheles gambiae A-B]

Turner et al. (2005) Turner,T.L., Hahn,M.W. and Nuzhdin,S.V. (2005) "Genomic Islands of Speciation in Anopheles gambiae" Plos Biol. 3:e285.