4. Discussion
The present study revealed the population genetic structure of major
urban malaria vector A. stephensi in India. The data generated is greatly
influenced by the sampling strategies and geographic locations. A.
stephensi is the major urban malaria vector occurring in most of the
parts of India (Gakhar et al., 2013). In present study, six populations
fromdifferent regions of Indiawere investigated using 13 microsatellite
loci. All loci used in studywere polymorphicwith number of distinct alleles
ranging from 3 to 16 (Table 3) and were therefore considered informative
for population genetic analysis. Locus E12 was found to be
the most polymorphic. This is in accordance to previous study on A.
stephensi in Central India (Sharma et al., 2015). Only 1.70% deviations