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Genome Sequence of Aedes aegypti, a Major Arbovirus Vector
Vishvanath Nene,1*Jennifer R. Wortman,1Daniel Lawson,2Brian Haas,1Chinnappa Kodira,3Zhijian (Jake) Tu,4Brendan Loftus,1Zhiyong Xi,5Karyn Megy,2Manfred Grabherr,3Quinghu Ren,1Evgeny M. Zdobnov,6,7,8Neil F. Lobo,9Kathryn S. Campbell,10Susan E. Brown,11Maria F. Bonaldo,12Jingsong Zhu,13Steven P. Sinkins,14David G. Hogenkamp,15Paolo Amedeo,1Peter Arensburger,13Peter W. Atkinson,13Shelby Bidwell,1Jim Biedler,4Ewan Birney,2Robert V. Bruggner,9Javier Costas,16Monique R. Coy,4Jonathan Crabtree,1Matt Crawford,3Becky deBruyn,9David DeCaprio,3Karin Eiglmeier,17Eric Eisenstadt,1Hamza El-Dorry,18William M. Gelbart,10Suely L. Gomes,18Martin Hammond,2Linda I. Hannick,1James R. Hogan,9Michael H. Holmes,1David Jaffe,3J. Spencer Johnston,19Ryan C. Kennedy,9Hean Koo,1Saul Kravitz,20Evgenia V. Kriventseva,6David Kulp,21Kurt LaButti,3Eduardo Lee,1Song Li,4Diane D. Lovin,9Chunhong Mao,4Evan Mauceli,3Carlos F. M. Menck,22Jason R. Miller,1Philip Montgomery,3Akio Mori,9Ana L. Nascimento,23Horacio F. Naveira,24Chad Nusbaum,3Sinéad O'Leary,3Joshua Orvis,1Mihaela Pertea,1Hadi Quesneville,25Kyanne R. Reidenbach,15Yu-Hui Rogers,20Charles W. Roth,17Jennifer R. Schneider,9Michael Schatz,1Martin Shumway,1Mario Stanke,26,27Eric O. Stinson,9Jose M. C. Tubio,28Janice P. VanZee,15Sergio Verjovski-Almeida,18Doreen Werner,27Owen White,1Stefan Wyder,6Qiandong Zeng,3Qi Zhao,1Yongmei Zhao,1Catherine A. Hill,15Alexander S. Raikhel,13Marcelo B. Soares,12Dennis L. Knudson,11Norman H. Lee,1||James Galagan,3Steven L. Salzberg,1Ian T. Paulsen,1George Dimopoulos,5Frank H. Collins,9Bruce Birren,3Claire M. Fraser-Liggett,1#David W. Severson9*
We present a draft sequence of the genome of Aedes aegypti,the primary vector for yellow fever and dengue fever, whichat 1376 million base pairs is about 5 times the size of thegenome of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nearly 50% ofthe Ae. aegypti genome consists of transposable elements. Thesecontribute to a factor of 4 to 6 increase in average gene lengthand in sizes of intergenic regions relative to An. gambiae andDrosophila melanogaster. Nonetheless, chromosomal synteny isgenerally maintained among all three insects, although conservationof orthologous gene order is higher (by a factor of 2) betweenthe mosquito species than between either of them and the fruitfly. An increase in genes encoding odorant binding, cytochromeP450, and cuticle domains relative to An. gambiae suggests thatmembers of these protein families underpin some of the biologicaldifferences between the two mosquito species.
1 The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. 2 European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK. 3 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA. 4 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. 5 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. 6 University of Geneva Medical School, 1 rue Michel-Servet, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. 7 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1 rue Michel-Servet, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. 8 Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK. 9 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. 10 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 11 College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. 12 Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. 13 University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. 14 University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. 15 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. 16 Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Edif. Consultas Planta-2, Santiago de Compostela E-15706, Spain. 17 Institut Pasteur, Paris 75724, France. 18 Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Quimica, Sao Paulo SP 05508-900, Brazil. 19 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. 20 Joint Technology Center, 5 Research Place, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. 21 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. 22 Universidade de Sao Paulo, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Sao Paulo SP 05508-900, Brazil. 23 Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo SP 05503-900, Brazil. 24 Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15001, Spain. 25 Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot et Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie 2, Place Jussieu, Paris 75252, France. 26 507A Engineering 2, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. 27 Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 1, Göttingen 37077, Germany. 28 Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela 15706, Spain.
Present address: University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Deceased.
Present address: 3125 Biomolecular Sciences Building, Universityof Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
|| Present address: George Washington University Medical Center,Ross Hall, Room 603, 2300 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037,USA.
# Present address: Institute of Genome Sciences and Departmentof Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,MD 21201, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nene{at}tigr.org (V.N.); severson.1{at}nd.edu (D.W.S.)
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1376 million base pairs is about 5 times the size of the genome of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nearly 50% of the Ae. aegypti genome consists of transposable elements. These contribute to a factor of 
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Present address: 3125 Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. 
