BAKER R H, KITZMILLER J B
Bull World Health Organ. 1965;32(4):575-80.
Increasing emphasis is being placed on the study of the genetics of insect vectors of disease, and, although Anopheles occidentalis is not itself a malaria vector, study of its salivary gland chromosomes is important as part of investigations into the phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships of anophelines, especially in view of this species' close morphological similarity to other members of the A. maculipennis complex.The authors of this paper provide a map of the salivary chromosomes of A. occidentalis, and discuss the many points of resemblance of those chromosomes to those of A. freeborni in particular. However, they point out that at least ten different paracentric inversions must be postulated to derive the A. occidentalis chromosomes from those of A. freeborni.
人们越来越重视对疾病昆虫传播媒介的遗传学研究，尽管西方按蚊本身并非疟疾传播媒介，但对其唾液腺染色体的研究作为按蚊系统发育和进化关系调查的一部分很重要，特别是鉴于该物种在形态上与黄斑按蚊复合体的其他成员非常相似。本文作者提供了西方按蚊唾液染色体图谱，并特别讨论了这些染色体与弗里伯恩按蚊染色体的许多相似之处。然而，他们指出，至少必须假定有十种不同的臂内倒位才能从弗里伯恩按蚊的染色体衍生出西方按蚊的染色体。
