ABSTRACT The structure of the rDNA repeating unit of _Anopheles gambiae_ (Diptera: Culicidae) was determined by restriction endonuclease mapping and hybridization analyses on four

independent clones obtained from a genomic library of a colony (G3) from the Gambia (West Africa). rDNA gene coding sequences are conserved, but much intragenomic and intraspecific

(geographic) variation occurs in the intergenic spacer. Hybridization of subclones from spacer and coding sequences to genomic DNA that was isolated from single mosquitoes from laboratory

colonies of four other _A. gambiae_ complex species reveals conservation of coding sequences but concerted evolution in the intergenic spacers. SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS DESPITE

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