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    Malayan kraits (Bungarus candidus) show affinity to anthropogenic structures in a human dominated landscape

    Study siteThe study area covers the campus of Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and its surrounding landscape in Muang, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (14.879° N, 102.018° E; Fig. 1). The university campus covers about 11.2 km2, and comprises a matrix of human modified lands interspersed with mixed deciduous forest fragments (at the onset of this study we identified there were 37 mixed deciduous forest fragments on campus, mean = 7.36 ± 1.48 ha, range = 0.45–45.6 ha [note, “±” is used for standard error throughout the text]). More than 15,000 students are enrolled at SUT, and there are numerous multi-story classrooms, laboratory and workshop buildings, residential housing, parking areas, eating and sports facilities, an elementary school, and a large hospital on the university campus. During the first term of the 2019 school year, 7622 students, as well as numerous SUT staff, lived in on-campus residential areas. The landscape surrounding the university is primarily dominated by agriculture, though there are also patches of less-disturbed areas as well as several densely populated villages and suburban housing divisions among the monoculture plots of upland crops (e.g., cassava, maize, and eucalyptus).Figure 1Study site map illustrating the land-use types spanning the area where the Malayan kraits (Bungarus candidus) were tracked in Muang Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. Map created using QGIS v.3.8.2 (https://qgis.org/) in combination with Inkscape v.1.1.0 (https://inkscape.org/).Full size imageThe study site is located within the Korat Plateau region with an altitude range of 205–285 m above sea level. Northeast Thailand has a tropical climate, and the average daily temperature from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020 in Muang Nakhon Ratchasima was 28.29 °C, with daily averages ranging from 19.3 to 34.1 °C38. The region receives an average annual rainfall ranging from 1270 to 2000 mm39. There are three distinct seasons in northeast Thailand: cold, wet, and hot, each are classified by annual changes in temperature and rainfall. Cold season is typically between mid-October and mid-February, hot season is generally from mid-February to May, while the highly unpredictable rainfall of the wet season is predominantly concentrated between the months May to October39,40.Due to the representation of agriculture, semi-urban, and suburban areas with patches of more natural areas all within a relatively small area, we determined the university campus provided an ideal setting to examine how land-use features and human activity influence the movements of B. candidus. Additionally, past studies have indicated northeast Thailand hosts the most bites by B. candidus in Thailand29,33, making sites like ours ideal.Study animalsWe opportunistically sampled Malayan kraits captured as a result of notifications from locals and ad-hoc encounters during transit due to low detectability in visual encounter surveys, in addition to those discovered through unstandardized visual encounter surveys. Upon capture, we collected morphometric data, including snout-vent length (SVL), tail length (TL), mass, and sex (Table 1, Supp. Table 1). We measured body lengths with a tape measure, measured body mass with a digital scale, and determined sex via cloacal probing, all while the snakes were anesthetized via inhaling vaporized isoflurane. We then housed individuals with an SVL > 645 mm and mass > 50 g in plastic boxes (with refugia and water) prior to surgical transmitter implantation by a veterinarian from the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo. We attempted to minimize the time snakes were in captivity awaiting implantation; however, delays arose due to the veterinarian’s availability, the snake being mid-ecdysis, or the snake having a bolus that needed to pass through the digestive tract before implantation (n = 21 implantations, mean = 5.02 ± 0.61 days, range = 0.60–13.02 days). The Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo veterinarian implanted radio transmitters (1.8 g BD-2 or 3.6 g SB-2 Holohil Inc, Carp, Canada) into the coelomic cavity using procedures described by Reinert and Cundall41, while the snake was anesthetized. We assigned each individual an ID according to sex and individual detection number (e.g., M02 = a male was the second B. candidus individual documented during the study). We released the implanted individuals as close as possible to their capture locations (mean = 65.31 m ± 13.7 m, range = 0–226.42 m), though on six occasions we moved individuals ≥ 100 m because the individual came from either residential areas or a busy road (all but one were moved  800 mm; thus, nine of the males were adults and four were juveniles (though two of the males had an SVL > 720 mm, and therefore likely sub-adults). The single telemetered female was an adult.Individual tracking durations varied (mean = 106.46 ± 15.36 days, range = 28.5–222.77 days; Supp. Fig. 1), as many individuals were lost due to unexpected premature transmitter failures (n = 5) or unsuccessful recapture efforts due to individuals sheltering under large buildings as the transmitter reached the end of its battery life (n = 4). We only recorded one confirmed mortality in the study, M01, who was killed by a motorized vehicle when crossing a road (n = 1). Another three individuals were lost due to unknown reasons, which may have been due to premature transmitter failure, mortality, or the animal moving beyond radio signal despite extensive search efforts. Thus, we only successfully recaptured and re-implanted five individuals (M01 once, M02 twice, M07 once, M27 once, and M33 twice). Transmitter batteries generally lasted approximately 90–110 days, so we aimed to replace transmitters after ≥ 90 days of use. At the end of the study, only one individual was successfully recaptured to remove the transmitter.Data collectionWe used very high frequency radio-telemetry to locate each telemetered individual on average every 24.20 h (SE ± 0.41, 0.17–410.0 h; see Supp. Fig. 2 for distribution of tracking time lags). We aimed to locate each individual’s shelter locations once each day during the daylight (06:00–18:00 h); however, we were occasionally (n = 34 days) unable to locate a snake for several consecutive days when we were unable to obtain radio signal due to an individual having moved far away or deep underneath a large structure. There were also a few occasions where we were unable to track snakes due to prolonged and heavy rainfall (n = 4 days), as the moisture damages equipment, or other reasons (n = 4 days). We additionally located snakes nocturnally (18:00–06:00 h) ad hoc and in an attempt to observe nocturnal behaviors and movement pathways when animals were active. We defined fixes as any time a telemetered individual was located, and relocations (i.e., moves) as the occasions where we located an individual > 5 m from its previous known location.Each day we manually honed in on signal via a radio receiver to locate individuals (as described by Amelon et al.42, and recorded locations in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM; 47 N World Geodetic System 84) coordinate reference system with a handheld global positioning system (GPS) unit (Garmin 64S GPS, Garmin International, Inc., Olathe, Kansas) directly above the sheltered snake. We generally approached within one meter of sheltering snakes during daylight to precisely record shelter locations and identify shelter type. Since we could not visually confirm snake locations, we methodically eliminated all possible locations where the snake could possibly be while at close range with the minimum possible gain on the radio receiver.Telemetered kraits tended to be inactive and sheltering underground during the daylight, thus we were confident that our diurnal location checks would not affect their movements. However, in some cases we resorted to determining an individual’s location via triangulation, where multiple lines cast from different vantage points towards the snake intersect on the snake’s location on the GPS, allowing us to determine the animal’s coordinate location from approximately 10–30 m away. This helped ensure that we recorded locations with greater accuracy when snakes sheltered underneath large buildings, as it allowed us to move away from large structures that hindered the GPS accuracy. This technique was also implemented during some nocturnal location checks when a snake was believed to be active among dense vegetation, in an attempt to prevent disturbance of the animals’ natural behavior. While we did hope to gain visual observations of active individuals during the night, we exercised more caution during nocturnal location checks, typically maintaining a minimum distance of approximately 5 m in attempt to lessen the chances of disturbing an active individual’s behavior. If the animal was active we recorded the animal’s observed behavioral state (i.e., moving, feeding, or foraging). When the radio signal was stable and the individual was not visible, we recorded the animal’s behavior as “sheltering”. We strived for an accuracy of  5 m difference), and land-use type (e.g., mixed deciduous forest, human-settlement, semi-natural area, agriculture, plantation; see Supp. Figs. 3 and 4 for photos of land-use types), behavior (e.g., sheltering, moving, foraging, or feeding), and shelter type (e.g., anthropogenic, burrow, or unknown, note we also recorded if we suspected the shelter to be part of a termite tunnel complex due to a close proximity to a visible termite mound; Supp. Fig. 5).During each location check we recorded the straight-line distance between the current and previous locations (distance moved/step length) with the GPS device. We then used step-lengths to summarize their movements by estimating the mean daily displacement (MDD; the total distance moved divided by the number of days the snake was located) and mean movement distance (MMD; the mean relocation distance, excludes distances ≤ 5). In order to limit biases due to some snakes being located multiple times within a given day/night, we limited our sample for estimating MMD and MDD to only include a single location per day. This was accomplished by manually removing “extra” nocturnal location checks that occurred within the same day, making sure to have all shelter relocations present within the dataset. When calculating MDD, we used the total number of daily location checks rather than the number of days between the individual’s tracking start and stop date since there were some days where individuals were not tracked. We also used the same one location check per day dataset to calculate movement/relocation probabilities and to examine each individual’s MMD, MDD, and relocation probability for the overall tracking duration as well as for each season.When feasible, we positioned a Bushnell (Bushnell Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas) time lapse field camera (Trophy Cam HD Essential E3, Model:119837) with infrared night capability on a tripod spaced 2–5 m from occupied shelter sites. We positioned the cameras so that we may gather photos of the focal snake as it exited the shelter site and/or behaviors exhibited near the shelter. We programmed the cameras using a combined setting, including field scan, which continuously captured one photo every minute, along with a motion sensor setting, which took photos upon movement trigger outside of the regular 1-min intervals.Space use and site fidelityAll analyses and most visualizations were done in R v.4.0.5 using RStudio v.1.4.1106 43,44. We attempted to estimate home ranges for the telemetered B. candidus individuals using autocorrelated kernel density estimates (AKDEs) using R package ctmm v.0.6.045,46 in order to better understand the spatial requirements of B. candidus. However, examination of the variograms revealed that the majority of the variograms had not fully stabilized (i.e., limited evidence of range stability in our sample), and many individuals had extremely low effective sample sizes (21.82 ± 9.75, range = 1.49–135.75; Supp. Table 4). Therefore, we do not report home ranges in this text, as the AKDE estimates would violate the assumption of range residency and either underestimate or misrepresent B. candidus spatial requirements. We also examined the speed estimates resulting from fitted movement models. Resulting variograms and tentative home range estimates are included in a supplementary file for viewing only (Supp. Fig. 6, Supp. Table 4). The original code is from Montaño et al.47.Since our data was not sufficient to estimate home range size for the telemetered B. candidus, we instead used Dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models (dBBMMs) with the R package move v.4.0.648 to estimate within study occurrence distributions. We caution readers that these are not home range estimates but instead modeling the potential movement pathways animals could have traversed49. Use of dBBMMs not only allows us to estimate occurrence distributions for each individual, thus helping us better understand the animal’s movement pathways and resource use, but it also allows us to examine movement patterns through dBBMM derived motion variance50,51. We selected a window size of 19 and margin size of 5, to catch short resting periods with the margin, while the window size of 19 is long enough to get a valid estimate of motion variance when the animals exhibit activity/movement. Contours however are somewhat arbitrary; therefore, we used three different contours levels (90%, 95%, 99%) to estimate dBBMM occurrence distributions (using R packages adehabitatHR v.0.4.19, and rgeos v.0.5.5), and show the sensitivity to contour choice52,53.All movement data, either including initial capture locations or beginning with the first location check ~ 24 h post release, was used for production of both the AKDEs and dBBMMs for each individual. We also estimated dBBMM occurrence distributions for each telemetered individual with the exception of M29, which only made three small moves within a burrow complex during the short time he was radio-tracked before transmitter failure.We compared space use estimates to two previously published B. candidus tracking datasets34,36, and one unpublished dataset shared on the Zenodo data repository54, all originating from the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve (approximately 41 km to the south of our study site): two adult males from within the forested area of the reserve [one tracked every 27.8 ± 0.99 h over a period of 103 days, the other tracked every 38.63 ± 11.2 h over a period of 30.58 days]34,54, and a juvenile male from agriculture on a forest boundary [tracked every 50.19 ± h for 66.91 days]36. The previous studies on B. candidus only tracked the movements of a single individual each, had coarser tracking regimes, and used traditional—fundamentally flawed methods55,56—to estimate space use34,36. Therefore, we ran dBBMMs with these previous datasets using the same window (19) and margin size (5).To quantify site reuse and time spent at sites (residency time) we used recursive analysis with the R package recurse v.1.1.257. We defined each site as a circular area with a radius of 5 m around each unique location (matching the targeted GPS accuracy). Then we calculated each individual’s overall number of relocations, each individual’s total number of relocations to each site, and each individual’s site revisit frequency and residency time at each unique site. Then we plotted revisited locations on a land-use map with space use estimates (95% and 99% dBBMM) in an attempt to help identify and highlight activity centers for telemetered individuals (see Supp. Figs. 7–13). All maps were created using Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS v.3.8.2).Habitat selectionWe used Integrated Step Selection Function models (ISSF) to examine the influence of land-use features on the movements of B. candidus at both the individual and population levels. We included movement data from all male individuals that used more than one habitat feature in our ISSF analysis. Therefore, we excluded F16 and M29 who both only used settlement habitat. Excluding M29 was justified by the individual having been tracked for the shortest duration (19 days) and had the fewest number of moves (n = 3), thus there were not enough relocations for ISSF models to work effectively. Using modified code from Smith et al.51 that used ISSF with Burmese python radio-telemetry data, we used the package amt v.0.1.458 to run ISSF for each individual, with Euclidean distance to particular land-use features (natural areas, agriculture, settlement, buildings, and roads) to determine association or avoidance of features. Cameron Hodges created all land-use shape files in QGIS by digitizing features from satellite imagery and verified all questionable satellite land-use types via on-ground investigation.The semi-natural areas, plantations, mixed deciduous forest and water bodies (such as irrigation canals and ponds which have densely vegetated edges) were all combined into a single layer of less-disturbed habitats which we refer to as “natural areas”. 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    New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world

    Argonema gen. nov. Skoupý et Dvořák.Type species: Argonema galeatum.Morphology: Filamentous cyanobacterium, colonies macroscopic, growing in round bulbs and tufts. The filaments are dark green to blue-green, grey-green or brown-green in color. Cells are wider than they are long. Filaments sheathed, sheaths are colorless to light brown, distinct, and variable in length. The filament can protrude from the sheath or the sheath can exceed filament. Trichomes are cylindrical, not attenuated to slightly attenuated towards the end, slightly or not constricted at cell walls. The apical cell can be concave, dark brown, purple-brown to almost black. Cell content often granulated. Necridic cells present, reproduction by hormogonia. The morphological description was based on both culture and fresh material.Etymology: The genus epithet (Argonema) is derived from greek Argo – slow, latent (αργός) and nema – thread (νήμα).A. galeatum sp. nov. Skoupý et Dvořák.Morphology: The cells of A. galeatum are 6.5–9.1 µm (mean 7.81 µm) wide and 1.1–2.5 µm (mean 1.83 µm) long (Figs. 1–5). Filaments are straight, blue-green to gray-green in color. The sheaths are colorless to light brown, distinct, and variable in length. The filament can protrude from the sheath or the sheath can exceed filament. No true branching was observed. Trichomes are cylindrical, not attenuated or slightly attenuated towards the end, slightly or not constricted at cell walls. Some filaments have a concave apical cell that is dark brown, purple-brown to almost black (Fig. 11b). Cell content often granulated. Reproduction by necridic cells and subsequent breaking of the filaments into hormogonia (Fig. 11a,c). The morphological description was based on both culture and fresh material.Figures 1-8Microphotographs of Argonema galeatum (Figs 1–5) and Argonema antarcticum (Figs. 6–8) Trichomes of A. galeatum appear more straight (Fig 2), while trichomes of A. antarcticum form waves (Fig 6) and loops (Fig 7). Scale = 10 µm, wide arrow = necridic cells, arrowhead = granules, asterisk = colored apical cell, circle = empty sheath.Full size imageFigures 9 and 10Histograms of cell dimensions constructed using PAST software. Fig. 9 – Histogram of cell width frequencies in A. galeatum (blue) and A. antarcticum (red). Fig. 10 – Histogram of cell length frequencies in A. galeatum (blue) and A. antarcticum (red).Full size imageHolotype: 38,057, Herbarium of the Department of Botany (OL), Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.Reference strain: Argonema galeatum A003/A1.Type locality: James Ross Island, Western Antarctica, 63.80589S, 57.92147 W.Habitat: Well-developed soil crust.Etymology: Species epithet A. galeatum was derived from latin galea – helmet.A. antarcticum sp. nov. Skoupý et Dvořák.Morphology: The cells are 7.6–9.2 µm (mean 8.52 µm) wide and 1.2–2.8 µm (mean 1.72 µm) long (Figs. 5–8). Filaments are wavy, gray-green to brown-green in color. The sheaths are colorless to light brown, distinct, and variable in length. The filament can protrude from the sheath or the sheath can exceed filament. No true branching was observed. Trichomes are cylindrical, not attenuated or slightly attenuated towards the end with a concave apical cell, slightly or not constricted at cell walls (Fig. 11d). Necridic cells present (Fig. 11e), reproduction by hormogonia. The morphological description was based on both culture and fresh material.Holotype: 38,058, Herbarium of the Department of Botany (OL), Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.Reference strain: Argonema antarcticum A004/B2.Type locality: James Ross Island, Western Antarctica, 63.89762S, 57.79743 W.Habitat: Well-developed soil crust.Etymology: Species epithet A. antarcticum was derived from the original sampling site.Morphological variabilityWe used light microscopy to assess the morphology of Argonema from soil crust samples and cultured strains. Argonema is morphologically similar to other Oscillatoriales, such as Lyngbya, Phormidium, and Oscillatoria. In culture, the morphology of A. galeatum and A. antarcticum differed slightly. Filaments of A. antarcticum are wider than cells of A. galeatum, averaging at 8.52 µm (A. galeatum – 7.81 µm). The average cell width/length ratio is 4.54 for A.galeatum and 4.89 for A. antarcticum. The cell width was significantly different between the two species (Nested ANOVA, p  More

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    Outdoor malaria vector species profile in dryland ecosystems of Kenya

    Study sites, sample collection and preparationAdult female mosquitoes used in this study had previously been collected from three areas: Kerio Valley (Baringo county), Rabai (Kilifi county) and Nguruman (Kajiado county) (Fig. 1), as part of vector-borne disease surveillance project and stored at – 80 °C at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). The mosquitoes were surveyed between August 2019 and May 2020. Nguruman is an agropastoral area located in Kajiado county at the southern end of the Kenyan Rift Valley bordering Tanzania. The area has a semi-arid climate characterized by erratic rains, extreme temperatures, and cyclic and prolonged droughts30. The vegetation is dominated by bushland, grassland and open woodlands along seasonal river valleys. Specific indicator data for malaria is not available for Nguruman except for estimates pertaining to the larger Kajiado county which as of 2019 indicates a malaria incidence rate of 5 per 1000 population31. Collections in Kerio Valley (Baringo county within the Rift Valley) were conducted in Kapluk and Barwesa, both agro-pastoral areas with arid and semi-arid ecology. Malaria is a major vector-borne disease in the areas with report of perennially occurrence in neighboring riverine areas32. Rabai is one of the seven administrative sub-counties of Kilifi county in the coastal region of Kenya where malaria is endemic. The main economic activities in the area include subsistence agriculture, casual labor, crafts and petty trading. The weather patterns at the sites during the sampling period were as follows: Kerio Valley (mean daily temperature: 21.2 °C, mean daily rainfall: 4.1 mm, mean relative humidity: 73.4%); Rabai (mean daily temperature: 26.4 °C, mean daily rainfall: 2.1 mm; mean relative humidity: 78.1%) and Nguruman (mean daily temperature: 22.5 °C, mean daily rainfall: 0.9 mm, mean relative humidity: 61.2%).Mosquito survey and processingHost seeking mosquitoes were trapped using CDC light traps baited with dry ice (carbon dioxide) attractive to several mosquitoes. Traps were set outdoors about 10–15 m away from randomly selected homesteads from 18:00 h to 06:00 h. After collection, the mosquitoes were anesthetized with trimethylamine and temporarily stored in liquid nitrogen before transportation to the Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) laboratory at icipe and later stored at − 80 °C. Anopheline mosquitoes were morphologically identified to species level using published taxonomic keys15,33.DNA extraction and Anopheles species discriminationDNA was extracted from the head/thorax of individual mosquitoes using ISOLATE II Genomic DNA Extraction kit (Bioline, UK) following the manufacturer’s instructions and used for species discrimination and screening for P. falciparum infection and Gste2 mutations (described below).Cryptic sibling species of the Anopheles funestus and Anopheles gambiae complexes were identified using conventional PCR34,35 and/or sequencing. PCR for An. funestus complex in a 15 µl reaction volume comprised 0.5 µM of each primer targeting: Anopheles funestus s.s, Anopheles vaneedeni, Anopheles rivulorum, Anopheles parensis, Anopheles leesoni, Anopheles longipalpis A and Anopheles longipalpis C, 3 µl of 5X HOT FIREPol Blend Master Mix Ready to Load (Solis BioDyne, Estonia) and 2 µl of DNA template. The cycling conditions were initial denaturation at 95 °C for 15 min, and then 30 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 30 s, annealing at 46 °C for 30 s and extension at 72 °C for 40 s and final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. Size fragments of each species were scored after separation in 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis stained with ethidium bromide against a 1 Kb DNA ladder (HyperLadder, Bioline, London, UK).For An. gambiae s.l., PCR in a 10 µl volume consisted of 2 µl of 5X Evagreen HRM Master Mix (Solis BioDyne, Estonia), 1 µl of DNA template and 10 µM concentration of each primer targeting An. gambiae s.s and An. arabiensis. The thermal cycling conditions included initial denaturation for 15 min at 95 °C followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 20 s, annealing at 61 °C for 15 s and extension at 72 °C for 20 s followed by final extension at 72 °C for 7 min.A subset of An. funestus s.l. samples that failed to amplify using the established protocol, was further amplified and sequenced targeting the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA)36. This target has shown utility in discriminating closely related mosquito species including anophelines12 and sequences from diverse species for this marker are well represented in reference databases (e.g. GenBank). PCR volumes for rDNA ITS2 were 15 µl containing 0.5 µM of the forward and reverse primers, 3 µl of 5X HOT FIREPol Blend Master Mix Ready to Load (Solis BioDyne, Estonia) and 2 µl of DNA template. The cycling conditions were initial denaturation at 95 °C for 15 min, followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 30 s, annealing at 60 °C for 30 s and extension at 72 °C for 45 s and final extension at 72 °C for 7 min. ExoSAP IT rapid cleanup kit (Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) was used to clean the PCR product as per the manufacturer’s guideline, and then outsourced for bidirectional Sanger sequencing to Macrogen, South Korea.Detection of malaria parasitesPlasmodium falciparum sporozoites in individual mosquitoes (head/thorax) were detected by analyzing high resolution melting (HRM) profiles generated from real time PCR products of non-coding mitochondrial sequence (ncMS)37. A P. falciparum DNA from National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC; London, UK) was used as a reference positive control. PCR was carried out in a 10 µl volume consisting of 2 µl of 5X Evagreen HRM Master Mix (Solis BioDyne, Estonia), 1 µl of DNA template and 10 µM of each primer. PCR cycling conditions were initial denaturation for 15 min at 95 °C followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 20 s, annealing at 61 °C for 15 s and extension at 72 °C for 20 s followed by final extension at 72 °C for 7 min. A fraction of RT-PCR-HRM positive samples were further analyzed using conventional PCR in a 10 µl volume consisting of 2 µl of 5X HOT FIREPol Blend Master Mix Ready to Load (Solis BioDyne, Estonia), 1 µl of DNA template and 10 µM of each primer. The cycling conditions comprised initial denaturation for 15 min at 95 °C followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 20 s, annealing at 61 °C for 15 s and extension at 72 °C for 20 s followed by final extension at 72 °C for 7 min. PCR product of samples positive by RT-PCR were purified using ExoSAP- IT (USB Corporation, Cleveland, OH, USA) and outsourced for sequencing to Macrogen, South Korea. All sporozoite-positive mosquitoes were molecularly identified to species by PCR of the ITS2 region as described above.Genotyping for L119F-GSTe2 mutation and sequencingTwo outer and two inner primers in a PCR assay were used to genotype the L119F-GSTe2 mutations that confer resistance of An. funestus mosquitoes to pyrethroids/DDT19 as described previously28. Thus, only An. funestus s.l. was screened using this assay. Briefly, PCR in a 15 µl reaction volume consisted of 10 µM of each primer, 3 µl of 5X HOT FIREPol Blend Master Mix Ready to Load (Solis BioDyne, Estonia), and 2 µl of DNA template. The cycling conditions were initial denaturation at 95 °C for 15 min, followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 30 s, annealing at 59 °C for 30 s and extension at 72 °C for 40 s and final extension at 72 °C for 7 min. Amplicons were resolved in a 1.5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide (Sigma-Aldrich, GmbH, Germany) against a 1 Kb DNA ladder (HyperLadder, Bioline, London, UK). The amplicons were scored as either homozygous susceptible (SS) at 312 bp, homozygous resistant (RR) at 523 bp or heterozygous (RS) when both bands were visualized.Representative GSTe2 allele positive samples were sequenced for the GSTe2 gene using the Gste2F and Gste2R primers as described previously38. PCR comprised a reaction volume of 15 µl in MyTaq DNA Polymerase Kit (Bioline, London, UK) containing 10 µM of each primer, 5X My Taq reaction buffer, 2 µl of My taq DNA polymerase and 1 µl of DNA template. PCR conditions were: initial denaturation of 5 min at 95 °C, followed by 30 cycles of 94 °C for 30 s, 58 °C for 30 s and 72 °C for 1 min, with a final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. Cleaning and sequencing of amplicons were performed as described above.Sequence and polymorphism analysisSequences (mosquito, P. falciparum, GSTe2) were viewed and cleaned in Geneious Prime39 and queried in GenBank using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLastn). Parasite sequences were assigned as P. falciparum after  > 98% percentage identity. MAFFT in Geneious Prime39 was used to perform multiple sequence alignments with default parameters. Maximum likelihood (ML) trees were inferred for mosquito ITS2 sequences using the best fit model of sequence evolution with nodal support for different groupings evaluated through 1000 bootstrap replications. GSTe2 gene polymorphism analysis was performed in Geneious Prime and ML tree reconstructed from MAFFT alignment using PhyML v. 2.2.4. Haplotype distribution network was constructed using Templeton-Crandall Sing (TCS) program v. 1.2140.Statistical analysisRelative abundance was used to estimate the outdoor composition of the anopheline mosquitoes. Daily counts of female mosquito/trap/night for An. funestus s.l. and An. gambiae s.l. were compared for each area using generalized linear models (GLM) with negative binomial error structure based on best-fit model residuals. The mean catches/trap/night was computed for each of the species complexes. The P. falciparum sporozoite infection rates (Pfsp) were expressed as the number of positive specimens of the total number of specimens examined. The distribution of L119F-GSTe2 mutations was assessed by determining allelic frequencies in different species. Infection status among the resistant mosquitoes was compared using the Fisher’s Exact Test. Data were analyzed using R v 4.1.0 software at 95% confidence limit.Ethical considerationsEthical review and approval of the study was granted by the Scientific and Ethical Review Unit (SERU) of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) (Protocol No. SSC 2787). Prior to data collection, the purpose of the study, procedures and associated benefits/risks were provided to the local leadership at county and community levels. Additionally, informed verbal consent to trap mosquitoes around homesteads was obtained from household heads. More