Partner study description
Adult mosquitoes were collected at Wali Kunda in the rural, central river region of The Gambia (13.567, -14.917). The area is 180km from the sea, on the south bank of the River Gambia, in flat Sudan savannah with a small fishing village (and a research field station) as well as rice fields and swamplands. The dominant Anopheles vector species in this region is An. coluzzii (1). Mosquitoes were captured using human landing collections both inside and outside huts for 19 days in October and November 2012. Mosquitoes were stored in RNAlater or dried over silica gel and stored at -20C.
1. Kevin Ochieng’ Opondo, David Weetman, Musa Jawara, Mathurin Diatta, Amfaal Fofana, Florence Crombe, Julia Mwesigwa, Umberto D’Alessandro, and Martin James Donnelly. Does insecticide resistance contribute to heterogeneities in malaria transmission in the gambia? Malaria J, March 2016. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1203-z
Contributors
Danica Fabrigar Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.
Musa Jawara Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM), Banjul, The Gambia.
Steve Lindsay Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Umberto D’Alessandro Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM), Banjul, The Gambia.
H. Charles J. Godfray (charles.godfray@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk) Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.