Manoja Kumar Das

The paper identifies five kdr mutations in Indian Ae. aegypti populations and finds no recombination among haplotypes with V1016G, F1534C, and F1534L alleles.

The paper evaluates AsteObp1 intron-1 as a marker for identifying biological forms and sibling species in Anopheles stephensi but finds it unsuitable due to high polymorphism and lack of association with morphological forms.

The paper re-evaluates the classification of Anopheles fluviatilis complex members, finding fixed ITS2-rDNA differences between species S and T and refuting claims of heterozygosity due to primer mispriming.

This study identifies intragenomic sequence variation in the ITS2 region of Anopheles stephensi rDNA, suggesting caution in using ITS2 for species delimitation due to potential heterogeneity.