id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005424 Notre Dame biologist Nora Besansky leads international consortium in sequencing the genomes of malaria-carrying mosquitoes | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1324 36 29 Malaria parasites are transmitted to humans by only a few dozen of the many hundreds of species of Anopheles mosquitoes, and of these, only a handful are highly efficient disease-vectors. “We selected species from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that represent a range of evolutionary distances from Anopheles gambiae, a variety of ecological conditions, and varying degrees of vectorial capacity,” Besansky said. cache/news-005424.html txt/news-005424.txt