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With invasive\n                      <jats:italic>Anopheles stephensi<\/jats:italic>\n                      implicated in malaria outbreaks in Africa, understanding the genomic basis of vector-parasite compatibility is essential for assessing the risk of future outbreaks due to this mosquito. Vector compatibility with\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      arises from ancient coevolution and involves genes such as\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs47<\/jats:italic>\n                      in\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>P47Rec<\/jats:italic>\n                      in\n                      <jats:italic>Anopheles<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Questions remain about whether sub-continental vector variation is a selective pressure on current\n                      <jats:italic>Plasmodium<\/jats:italic>\n                      populations.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We analyzed the genetic diversity in parasite\u2013vector interaction genes in\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0gambiae<\/jats:italic>\n                      from 9 and 15 countries in Africa, respectively. Specifically, we looked for evidence of malaria vector-mediated selection within three\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      genes (\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs47<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs16<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs37<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) and conducted association analyses with occurrence probabilities of prominent malaria vectors.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Higher protein haplotype diversities of\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs47<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs16<\/jats:italic>\n                      were associated with the probability of occurrence of\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0arabiensis<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0funestus<\/jats:italic>\n                      together. Only\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs16<\/jats:italic>\n                      carried a signature of positive selection consistently (average Tajima\u2019s\n                      <jats:italic>D<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009\u22122.96), which was associated with the probability of occurrence of\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0funestus<\/jats:italic>\n                      . These findings support vector-mediated selection on the basis of vector species diversity that may be occurring within Africa. We also employed phylogenetic analyses of\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0gambiae<\/jats:italic>\n                      interaction genes (\n                      <jats:italic>P47Rec<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>APN1<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>HPX15<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) to identify significant subspecies diversity as a prerequisite to vector-population-mediated selection.\n                      <jats:italic>Anopheles gambiae<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic>HPX15<\/jats:italic>\n                      revealed significant within-species differentiation (multiple branches bootstrap\u2009&gt;\u200970) compared with absence of variation in\n                      <jats:italic>P47Rec<\/jats:italic>\n                      , suggesting that further investigation into subspecies-mediated selection on the basis of\n                      <jats:italic>HPX15<\/jats:italic>\n                      is needed. Finally, we observed five amino acid changes at\n                      <jats:italic>P47Rec<\/jats:italic>\n                      in invasive\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0stephensi<\/jats:italic>\n                      compared with dominant African\n                      <jats:italic>Anopheles<\/jats:italic>\n                      species, calling for further investigation of the impact these distinct\n                      <jats:italic>P47Rec<\/jats:italic>\n                      variants might have on local African\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:italic>Pfs47<\/jats:italic>\n                      diversity.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Overall, these findings suggest that vector variation within Africa could influence\n                      <jats:italic>P.\u00a0falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      diversity and lay a genomic framework for future investigation of invasive\n                      <jats:italic>An.\u00a0stephensi<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2019s impact on African malaria.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Graphical Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13071-024-06604-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,22]],"date-time":"2024-12-22T21:46:12Z","timestamp":1734903972000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Multi-locus investigation of Anopheles-mediated selective pressure on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Isuru","family":"Gunarathna","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph D.","family":"Spear","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tamar E.","family":"Carter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"6604_CR1","volume-title":"World malaria report 2023","author":"WHO","year":"2023","unstructured":"WHO. 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