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The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Americas: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

Marianne E Sinka1*, Yasmin Rubio-Palis2,3, Sylvie Manguin4, Anand P Patil1, Will H Temperley1, Peter W Gething1, Thomas Van Boeckel1,5, Caroline W Kabaria6, Ralph E Harbach7 and Simon I Hay1,6*

1 Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

2 BIOMED, Universidad de Carabobo, Apartado 2073, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela

3 Laboratorio de Ecología de Vectores, Dirección de Control de Vectores y Fauna Nociva, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud, Maracay, Venezuela

4 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Lab. d'Immuno-Physiopathologie Virale et Moleculaire, UMR-MD3/Univ. Montpellier I, Faculté de Pharmacie, 15, Ave Charles Flahault, 34093 Montpellier, France

5 Biological Control and Spatial Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles CP160/12, Av FD Roosevelt 50, B1050, Brussels, Belgium

6 Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI - Univ. Oxford - Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Kenyatta National Hospital Grounds, P.O. Box 43640-00100 Nairobi, Kenya

7 Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

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Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:72 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-72

Published: 16 August 2010

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Expert opinion distribution maps for the nine DVS of the Americas.

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Predictive species distribution maps for the nine DVS of the Americas.

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Bionomics protocol.

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Summary tables showing evaluation statistics for all mapping trials and final Boosted Regression Tree environmental and climatic variable selections for the final, optimal predictive maps.

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