Phylogenomics redefines the evolutionary history of mosquitoes

What if mosquitoes aren’t as ancient as we thought?

New phylogenomic evidence from PNAS reveals that mosquito evolution may be 100 million years younger than earlier estimates, and tightly linked with malaria parasite evolution.

Researchers used Daicel Arbor’s myBaits Diptera 2.7v1 UCE kit to sequence conserved markers across major mosquito lineages, reshaping our understanding of how these disease vectors evolved.