城市地下蚊子的古代起源，这一成果由
在这项工作中，小组调查了一个被广泛引用的城市适应的例子，即伦敦地铁蚊子。对约350个当代和历史样本的种群基因组分析反驳了一种流行的假设，即200年前，骚扰者起源于伦敦的地下。相反，研究人员表明，在1000多年的历史中，骚扰者首先适应了地中海或中东的地面上的人类环境，可能与中东的古代农业文明有关。他们的研究结果强调了早期人类社会在为当代城市进化启动分类群方面的作用。它们还提供了关于骚扰是否以及如何导致西尼罗河病毒在现代城市传播的见解。
据悉，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。
附：英文原文
Title: Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Author: Yuki Haba, PipPop Consortium, Petra Korlevi, Erica McAlister, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Molly Schumer, Noah H. Rose, Carolyn S. McBride, Matthew L. Aardema, Maria O. Afonso, Natasha M. Agramonte, John Albright, Ana Margarida Alho, Antonio P. G. Almeida, Haoues Alout, Bulent Alten, Mine Altinli, Raouf Amara Korba, Stefanos S. Andreadis, Vincent Anghel, Soukaina Arich, Arielle Arsenault-Benoit, Célestine Atyame, Fabien Aubry, Frank W. Avila, Diego Ayala, Rasha S. Azrag, Lilit Babayan, Allon Bear, Norbert Becker, Anna G. Bega, Sophia Bejarano, Ira Ben-Avi, Joshua B. Benoit, Sad C. Boubidi, William E. Bradshaw, Daniel Bravo-Barriga, Rubén Bueno-Marí, Nataa Bui, Viktoria abanová, Brittany Cabeje, Beniamino Caputo, Maria V. Cardo, Simon Carpenter, Elena Carreton, Mouhamadou S. Chouabou, Michelle Christian, Maureen Coetzee, William R. Conner, Anton Cornel, C. Lorna Culverwell, Aleksandra I. Cupina, Katrien De Wolf, Isra Deblauwe, Brittany Deegan, Sarah Delacour-Estrella, Alessandra della Torre, Debora Diaz, Serena E. Dool, Vitor L. dos Anjos, Sisay Dugassa, Babak Ebrahimi, Samar Y. M. Eisa, Nohal Elissa, Sahar A. B. Fallatah, Ary Faraji, Marina V. Fedorova, Emily Ferrill, Dina M. Fonseca, Kimberly A. Foss, Cipriano Foxi, Caio M. Frana, Stephen R. Fricker, Megan L. Fritz, Eva Frontera, Hans-Peter Fuehrer, Kyoko Futami, Enas H. S. Ghallab, Romain Girod, Mikhail I. Gordeev, David Greer, Martin Gschwind, Milehna M. Guarido, Teoh Guat Ney, Filiz Gunay, Eran Haklay, Alwia A. E. Hamad, Jun Hang, Christopher M. Hardy, Jacob W. Hartle, Jenny C. Hesson, Yukiko Higa, Christina M. Holzapfel, Ann-Christin Honnen, Angela M. Ionica, Laura Jones, Prparim Kadriaj, Hany A. Kamal, Colince Kamdem, Dmitry A. Karagodin, Shinji Kasai, Mihaela Kavran, Emad I. M. Khater, Frederik Kiene, Heung-Chul Kim, Ilias Kioulos, Annette Klein, Marko Klemeni, Ana Klobuar, Erin Knutson, Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt, Linda Kothera, Pauline Kreienbühl, Pierrick Labbé, Itay Lachmi, Louis Lambrechts, Nediljko Landeka, Christopher H. Lee, Bryan D. Lessard, Ignacio Leycegui, Jan O. Lundstrm, Yoav Lustigman, Caitlin MacIntyre, Andrew J. Mackay, Krisztian Magori, Carla Maia, Colin A. Malcolm, Ralph-Joncyn O. Marquez, Dino Martins, Reem A. Masri, Gillian McDivitt, Rebekah J. McMinn, Johana Medina, Karen S. Mellor, Jason Mendoza, Enrih Merdi, Stacey Mesler, Camille Mestre, Homer Miranda, Martina Miterpáková, Fabrizio Montarsi, Anton V. Moskaev, Tong Mu, Tim W. R. Mhlmann, Alice Namias, Ivy Ng’iru, Marc F. Ngangué, Maria T. Novo, Laor Orshan, José A. Oteo
Issue&Volume: 2025-10-23
Abstract: 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.
DOI: ady4515
Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515