Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
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Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form molestus , also known as the London Underground mosquito. Population genomic analysis of ~350 contemporary and historical samples counters the popular hypothesis that molestus originated belowground in London <200 years ago. Instead, we show that molestus first adapted to human environments aboveground in the Mediterranean or Middle East over the course of more than 1000 years, possibly in association with ancient agricultural civilizations of the Middle East. Our results highlight the role of early human society in priming taxa for contemporary urban evolution. They also provide insight into whether and how molestus contributes to West Nile virus transmission in modern cities.
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- Titre Crossref
- Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
- Date Crossref
- 23/10/2025
- Éditeur
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Type
- journal-article
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Princeton UniversityWellcome Sanger InstituteNatural History MuseumHoward Hughes Medical InstituteStanford UniversityMontclair State UniversityDeKalb County Board of HealthConsolidated Mosquito Abatement DistrictDireção Geral do Património CulturalCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le DéveloppementInstitut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementAnimal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et EcosystèmesHacettepe UniversityCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueÉcole Pratique des Hautes ÉtudesInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution de MontpellierInstitut de Recherche pour le DéveloppementBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical MedicineUniversity Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi of Bordj Bou ArreridjFederation of Greek MaricultureSouthern Nevada Health DistrictInstitut Pasteur du MarocUniversity of Maryland, College ParkInsermProcessus Infectieux en Milieu Insulaire TropicalInstitut PasteurUniversité Paris CitéGénomique évolutive, modélisation et santéUniversidad de AntioquiaUniversité de MontpellierMaladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et ContrôleCentre International de Recherches Médicales de FrancevilleUniversity of KhartoumMinistry of Education and ScienceMinistry of Environmental ProtectionHeidelberg UniversityScientific Center of RAS in ChernogolovkaVavilov Institute of General GeneticsUniversity of San DiegoIsrael Ministry of HealthUniversity of CincinnatiInstitut Pasteur d'AlgérieUniversity of OregonUniversity of CórdobaUniversidad de ExtremaduraUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversity of OsijekBiomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of SciencesConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasThe Pirbright InstituteUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSwiss Centre for Scientific ResearchUniversity of the WitwatersrandNational Institute for Communicable DiseasesUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of Nebraska at KearneyUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Novi SadInstituut voor Tropische GeneeskundeUniversidad de ZaragozaUniversität GreifswaldAddis Ababa UniversitySanta Clara County Behavioral Health ServicesMinistère des Solidarités et de la SantéImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversityCentral Research Institute of EpidemiologyRutgers, The State University of New JerseyVector (United States)Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della SardegnaSouthern Nazarene UniversityUniversity of South AustraliaGovernment of Western Australia Department of HealthUniversity of Veterinary Medicine ViennaNagasaki UniversityAin Shams UniversityInstitut Pasteur de MadagascarMoscow State University of Psychology & EducationSwiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteUniversity of BaselOnderstepoort Veterinary Academic HospitalUniversity of PretoriaInstitute for Medical ResearchWalter Reed Army Institute of ResearchCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationUppsala UniversityNational Institute of Infectious DiseasesUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-NapocaUniversity of Medicine TiranaInstitute of Public HealthThe University of Texas at El PasoInstitute of Cytology and GeneticsUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, FoundationAgricultural University of AthensHrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvoAndrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public HealthWashington State Department of HealthWageningen University & ResearchCenters for Disease Control and PreventionInstitut Universitaire de FranceIsrael Antiquities AuthorityIowa State UniversityAustralian National Insect CollectionUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignEastern Washington UniversityUniversity of HertfordshireMpala Research Center and Wildlife FoundationVirginia TechColorado State UniversityMiami-Dade Public Library SystemAntelope Valley CollegeAntelope Valley HospitalSlovak Academy of SciencesInstitute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of SciencesIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle VenezieHospital San PedroCenter for Biomedical Research of La RiojaKagoshima UniversityUniversity of Bari Aldo MoroUniversitat de les Illes BalearsHospital Universitario de CanariasNorth Carolina State UniversityInstitute Malgache De Recherches AppliquéesUniversity of ZurichSchaffner (Switzerland)National Research Tomsk State UniversitySan Francisco Department of Public HealthL. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityS.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical UniversityRoyal Museum for Central AfricaAristotle University of ThessalonikiKern Medical CenterKern Community College DistrictMercer UniversityNational Taiwan UniversityYale UniversityNational Academy of Sciences of BelarusInstitute of Molecular Biology and BiotechnologyFoundation for Research and Technology HellasLiverpool School of Tropical MedicineWuhan Center for Disease Control and PreventionUniversity of Vienna
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