Zhong Min,Wang Ying,Fu Mengying,Yu Shasha,Zhao Qing.Species identification of anopheles mosquitoes from the bordering area of China and Myanmar based on morphological and molecular characters[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(24):2432-2436.
Zhong Min,Wang Ying,Fu Mengying,Yu Shasha,Zhao Qing.Species identification of anopheles mosquitoes from the bordering area of China and Myanmar based on morphological and molecular characters[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(24):2432-2436.DOI:
Species identification of anopheles mosquitoes from the bordering area of China and Myanmar based on morphological and molecular characters
Objective To identify the species of anopheles mosquitoes from the China-Myanmar bordering area based on morphological characters and sequence analysis of the second internal transcription spacer (ITS2) of ribosomal DNA. Methods The anopheles mosquitoes were collected from the bordering area of China and Myanmar. Firstly
the mosquito species were identified according to the morphological characters. Then
the genomic DNA was extracted from the anopheles mosquitoes. The ITS2 sequences of the anopheles mosquitoes were obtained by PCR amplification and sequencing. And the ITS2 sequences were analyzed by online BLAST method. Finally
the ITS2 sequences were aligned with their homologs of other anopheles obtained from GenBank
and the phylogenetic tree was built using MEGA5 software. Results The ITS2 sequence lengths of Anopheles minimus
Anopheles peditaeniatus and Anopheles kochi identified morphologically were 506 bp
575 bp and 517 bp
respectively. The results of BLAST showed that the molecular identification results of the anopheles species according to the ITS2 sequences were the same as the morphological identification results. The phylogenetic tree showed that the collected Anopheles minimus
Anopheles peditaeniatus and Anopheles kochi formed the separate branches. Conclusion In the present study
some anopheles species in the bordering area of China and Myanmar are identified as Anopheles minimus
Anopheles peditaeniatus and Anopheles kochi by both morphological and molecular biological methods.