Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

Four species were selected from the An. gambiae sibling species complex followed by sampling at increasing evolutionary distances within the three main anopheline subgenera with particular emphasis on the subgenus Cellia. A subset of species was also selected for SNP-discovery sequencing. The selected species also cover the spectra of geography - old to new world, and vectorial capacity - from highly efficient to non-vectors, and most are available from colonies housed by the Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource Center.