Mosquito populations give a new insight into the role of Caucasus in evolution

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged biodiversity, biogeography, Caucasus, chromosomes, cytogenetics, Diptera, entomology, evolution, genetics, karyotype, larvae, mosquitoes, taxonomyLeave a comment

August 6, 2018

We know that the Caucasus is a relatively large mountainous region, situated between Black and the Caspian seas. In its turn, it is divided into three subregions: Ciscaucasia, Greater Caucasus and Transcaucasia, also known as South Caucasus. A closer look into the chromosome structure of mosquito larvae of a curious group of species (Chironomus “annularius” sensu Strenzke (1959)), […]

The Caucasus as an ‘island’ in the ‘sea’ of steppes: New insights in mosquito evolution

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged Caucasus, cytogenetics, Diptera, evolution, Kazakhstan, microevolution, mosquito, new subspecies, RAS, RussiaLeave a comment

November 7, 2016

From a geographical point of view, the Caucasus is far from an island or even a peninsula, being a relatively big mountainous region appearing as a fence at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black and the Caspian seas. However, a study into the chromosome structure of mosquito larvae of the species […]