Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Yuki Haba, Matthew L. Aardema, Maria Odete Alves Marques Carolino Afonso, Natasha M. Agramonte, John Albright, Ana Margarida Alho, Antonio P.G. Almeida, Haoués Alout, Bulent Alten, Mine Altinli, Raouf Amara Korba, Stefanos S. Andreadis, Vincent Anghel, Soukaina Arich, Arielle Arsenault-Benoit, , Annette Klein
The paper shows that the London Underground Mosquito adapted to human environments aboveground in the Middle East over 1000 years, not recently underground in London.
Science · Oct 23, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology