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BMC Evolutionary Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Adaptation of a South American malaria vector to laboratory colonization suggests faster-male evolution for mating ability José BP Lima1,2, Denise Valle1,2 and Alexandre A Peixoto*3 Address: 1Departamento de Entomologia, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, Manguinhos CEP 21045-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto de Biologia do Exército, Rua Francisco Manuel 102, Benfica CEP 20911-270, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and 3Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, Manguinhos CEP 21045-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Email: José BP Lima - josebento@; Denise Valle - dvalle@ioc.fiocruz.br; Alexandre A Peixoto* - apeixoto@fiocruz.br * Corresponding author Published: 06 May 2004 Received: 04 November 2003 Accepted: 06 May 2004 BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:12 This article is available from: /1471-2148/4/12 © 2004 Lima et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the articles original URL. Abstract Background: Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis (Diptera: Culicidae) is one of the very few South American mosquito vectors of malaria successfully colonized in the laboratory. These vectors are very hard to breed because they rarely mate in artificial conditions. A few years ago a free-mating laboratory colony of An. albitar