Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito.
Journal
Science (New York, N.Y.)
Journal Volume
390
Journal Issue
6771
ISSN
1095-9203
Date Issued
2025-10-23
Author(s)
Haba, Yuki
Korlević, Petra
McAlister, Erica
Lawniczak, Mara K N
Schumer, Molly
Rose, Noah H
McBride, Carolyn S
Aardema, Matthew L
Afonso, Maria O
Agramonte, Natasha M
Albright, John
Alho, Ana Margarida
Almeida, Antonio P G
Alout, Haoues
Alten, Bulent
Altinli, Mine
Amara Korba, Raouf
Andreadis, Stefanos S
Anghel, Vincent
Arich, Soukaina
Arsenault-Benoit, Arielle
Atyame, Célestine
Aubry, Fabien
Avila, Frank W
Ayala, Diego
Azrag, Rasha S
Babayan, Lilit
Bear, Allon
Becker, Norbert
Bega, Anna G
Bejarano, Sophia
Ben-Avi, Ira
Benoit, Joshua B
Boubidi, Saïd C
Bradshaw, William E
Bravo-Barriga, Daniel
Bueno-Marí, Rubén
Bušić, Nataša
Čabanová, Viktoria
Cabeje, Brittany
Caputo, Beniamino
Cardo, Maria V
Carpenter, Simon
Carreton, Elena
Chouaïbou, Mouhamadou S
Christian, Michelle
Coetzee, Maureen
Conner, William R
Cornel, Anton
Culverwell, C Lorna
Cupina, Aleksandra I
De Wolf, Katrien
Deblauwe, Isra
Deegan, Brittany
Delacour-Estrella, Sarah
Della Torre, Alessandra
Diaz, Debora
Dool, Serena E
Dos Anjos, Vitor L
Dugassa, Sisay
Ebrahimi, Babak
Eisa, Samar Y M
Elissa, Nohal
Fallatah, Sahar A B
Faraji, Ary
Fedorova, Marina V
Ferrill, Emily
Fonseca, Dina M
Foss, Kimberly A
Foxi, Cipriano
França, Caio M
Fricker, Stephen R
Fritz, Megan L
Frontera, Eva
Fuehrer, Hans-Peter
Futami, Kyoko
Ghallab, Enas H S
Girod, Romain
Gordeev, Mikhail I
Greer, David
Gschwind, Martin
Guarido, Milehna M
Guat Ney, Teoh
Gunay, Filiz
Haklay, Eran
Hamad, Alwia A E
Hang, Jun
Hardy, Christopher M
Hartle, Jacob W
Hesson, Jenny C
Higa, Yukiko
Holzapfel, Christina M
Honnen, Ann-Christin
Ionica, Angela M
Jones, Laura
Kadriaj, Përparim
Kamal, Hany A
Kamdem, Colince
Karagodin, Dmitry A
Kasai, Shinji
Kavran, Mihaela
Khater, Emad I M
Kiene, Frederik
Kim, Heung-Chul
Kioulos, Ilias
Klein, Annette
Klemenčić, Marko
Klobučar, Ana
Knutson, Erin
Koenraadt, Constantianus J M
Kothera, Linda
Kreienbühl, Pauline
Labbé, Pierrick
Lachmi, Itay
Lambrechts, Louis
Landeka, Nediljko
Lee, Christopher H
Lessard, Bryan D
Leycegui, Ignacio
Lundström, Jan O
Lustigman, Yoav
MacIntyre, Caitlin
Mackay, Andrew J
Magori, Krisztian
Maia, Carla
Malcolm, Colin A
Marquez, Ralph-Joncyn O
Martins, Dino
Masri, Reem A
McDivitt, Gillian
McMinn, Rebekah J
Medina, Johana
Mellor, Karen S
Mendoza, Jason
Merdić, Enrih
Mesler, Stacey
Mestre, Camille
Miranda, Homer
Miterpáková, Martina
Montarsi, Fabrizio
Moskaev, Anton V
Mu, Tong
Möhlmann, Tim W R
Namias, Alice
Ng'iru, Ivy
Ngangué, Marc F
Novo, Maria T
Orshan, Laor
Oteo, José A
Otsuka, Yasushi
Panarese, Rossella
Paredes-Esquivel, Claudia
Paronyan, Lusine
Peper, Steven T
Petrić, Dušan V
Pilapil, Kervin
Pou-Barreto, Cristina
Puechmaille, Sebastien J
Radespiel, Ute
Rahola, Nil
Raman, Vivek K
Redouane, Hamadouche
Reiskind, Michael H
Reissen, Nadja M
Rice, Benjamin L
Robert, Vincent
Ruiz-Arrondo, Ignacio
Salamat, Ryan
Salamone, Amy
Sarih, M'hammed
Satta, Giuseppe
Sawabe, Kyoko
Schaffner, Francis
Schultz, Karen E
Shaikevich, Elena V
Sharakhov, Igor V
Sharakhova, Maria V
Shatara, Nader
Sibataev, Anuarbek K
Sicard, Mathieu
Smith, Evan
Smith, Ryan C
Smitz, Nathalie
Soriano, Nicolas
Spanoudis, Christos G
Stone, Christopher M
Studentsky, Liora
Sulesco, Tatiana
Tantely, Luciano M
Thao, La K
Tietze, Noor
Tokarz, Ryan E
Tsuda, Yoshio
Turić, Nataša
Uhran, Melissa R
Unlu, Isik
Van Bortel, Wim
Vardanyan, Haykuhi
Vavassori, Laura
Velo, Enkelejda
Venter, Marietjie
Vignjević, Goran
Vogels, Chantal B F
Volkava, Tatsiana
Vontas, John
Ward, Heather M
Wasi Ahmad, Nazni
Weill, Mylène
West, Jennifer D
Wheeler, Sarah S
White, Gregory S
Wipf, Nadja C
Wu, Tai-Ping
Yu, Kai-Di
Zimmermann, Elke
Zittra, Carina
Abstract
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, form , also known as the London Underground mosquito. Population genomic analysis of ~350 contemporary and historical samples counters the popular hypothesis that originated belowground in London <200 years ago. Instead, we show that 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 contributes to West Nile virus transmission in modern cities.
Subjects
adaptation
disease transmission
evolutionary biology
mosquito
population bottleneck
population genetics
urban ecosystem
West Nile virus
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Type
journal article