Louisa Messenger (Environmental & Occupational Health) is a co-author of the article, "High-throughput barcoding method for the genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance and species identification in Anopheles gambiae complex malaria vectors", in the journal Scientific Reports.
Genetic barcoding of mosquitoes is a useful tool to assist the high-throughput surveillance of insecticide resistance, discriminate between sibling species, and to detect the presence of Plasmodium infections. In this study, researchers combined multiplex PCR, custom-designed dual indexing, and Illumina next generation sequencing for high throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-profiling of four species from the Anopheles (An.) gambiae complex (An. gambiae sensu stricto, An. coluzzii, An. arabiensis and An. melas).
