Abstract
For effective control of pathogen-transmitting mosquitoes, precise surveillance data of mosquito distribution are essential. Recently, an increase of insecticide resistance due to the kdr mutation in Anopheles gambiae, a mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite, has been reported. With the aim of developing a simple and effective method for surveying resistant mosquitoes, LAMP was applied to the allele-specific detection of the kdr gene in An. gambiae. Allele-specific LAMP (AS-LAMP) method successfully distinguished the kdr homozygote from the heterozygote and the wild type. The robustness of AS-LAMP suggests its usefulness for routine identification of insects, not only mosquitoes but also other vectors and agricultural pests. Here we describe the method of AS-LAMP to detect mutation in Anopheles mosquitoes.
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This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture and Technology to H.K., and the Funding Program for the Next Generation of World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) to H.K. H.A. is a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Aonuma, H., Badolo, A., Okado, K., Kanuka, H. (2013). Detection of Mutation by Allele-Specific Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (AS-LAMP). In: Kolpashchikov, D., Gerasimova, Y. (eds) Nucleic Acid Detection. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1039. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-535-4_10
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