Cytological and Molecular Studies Based on Ovarian Nurse Cell’s Polytene Chromosome and ITS-2 Sequence of Anopheles vagus in West Bengal

An.vagus is medically important vector and is associated with the transmission of malaria in some places of north east India and Bangladesh. Studies on the cytogenetics of An.vagus mosquitoes have been extended through the observation of banding and puffing pattern of polytene chromosome. Cytological and Molecular variation of An. vagus is manifested through the polytene chromosome (inversion and translocation) and ITS2 sequence respectively. In West Bengal studies on cytogenetics and molecular genetics of An. vagus is very poor, therefore we have undertaken our research work on polytene chromosome and ITS2 Sequence to know the cytological and molecular variation of An. vagus in natural population.