Sequencing of the Anopheles gambiae genome.

Representatives of an international network of Anopheles gambiae researchers and genome sequencing centres met at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in March 2001 and agreed on the general principles and method of operation for sequencing the genome of Anopheles gambiae -- the mosquito responsible for the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa -- and for making this information freely available through a public data base, together with all ancillary genomic, genetic and biological information concerning the mosquito. The mosquito genome sequence will join those of the Plasmodium parasite and the human host to provide malaria researchers with the opportunity to identify new …