title: Mosquitoes of Anopheles hyrcanus (Diptera, Culicidae) Group: Species Diagnostic and Phylogenetic Relationships.
abstract: Herein, we report the results of study of Anopheles species in Primorsk and Khabarovsk regions of Russia. Three species of the Anopheles hyrcanus group: An. kleini, An. pullus, and An. lesteri were identified by molecular taxonomic diagnostics for the first time in Russia. Surprisingly, An. sinensis, which earlier was considered the only species of Anopheles in Russian Far East, was not observed. We analyzed nucleotide variation in the 610-bp fragment of the 5' end of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) region. All species possessed a distinctive set of COI sequences. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree was constructed for members of the hyrcanus group. The examined Anopheles hyrcanus group members could be divided into two major subgroups: subgroup 1 (An. hyrcanus and An. pullus) and subgroup 2 (An. sinensis, An. kleini, and An. lesteri), which were found to be monophyletic.
authors.affiliation: Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan hrabrova@yandex.ru.
authors.forename: Natalia V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Khrabrova
authors.affiliation: Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
authors.forename: Yulia V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Andreeva
authors.affiliation: Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
authors.forename: Anuarbek K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sibataev
authors.affiliation: Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
authors.forename: Svetlana S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Alekseeva
authors.affiliation: Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
authors.forename: Perizat A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Esenbekova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny