城市地下蚊子的古代起源

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Science Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI:10.1126/science.ady4515

Yuki Haba, PipPop Consortium, Petra Korlević, Erica McAlister, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Molly Schumer, Noah H. Rose, Carolyn S. McBride

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摘要

了解生命如何适应城市环境是进化生物学的一个重要挑战。在这项工作中，我们调查了一个被广泛引用的城市适应的例子，即摩鼠的库蚊，也被称为伦敦地铁蚊子。对大约350个当代和历史样本的种群基因组分析反驳了流行的假设，即鼹鼠起源于200年前伦敦的地下。相反，我们表明，在1000多年的时间里，鼹鼠首先适应了地中海或中东的地面上的人类环境，这可能与中东的古代农业文明有关。我们的研究结果强调了早期人类社会在当代城市进化中启动类群的作用。它们还提供了关于鼹鼠是否以及如何促进西尼罗河病毒在现代城市传播的见解。

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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form molestus, also known as the London Underground mosquito. Population genomic analysis of ~350 contemporary and historical samples counters the popular hypothesis that molestus originated belowground in London <200 years ago. Instead, we show that molestus first adapted to human environments aboveground in the Mediterranean or Middle East over the course of more than 1000 years, possibly in association with ancient agricultural civilizations of the Middle East. Our results highlight the role of early human society in priming taxa for contemporary urban evolution. They also provide insight into whether and how molestus contributes to West Nile virus transmission in modern cities.

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