“…RAPD-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique that generates markers by the amplification of random DNA segments with single primers of arbitrary nucleotide sequence (Williams et al, 1990). These molecular markers have been successfully used in genetic variability studies; they were applied to natural populations of different mosquito species including Aedes albifasciatus (de Sousa et al, 1999), Aedes (Finlaya) japonicus (Fonseca et al, 2001), Aedes albopictus (Ayres et al, 2002), Anopheles nuñeztovari (Posso et al, 2003), Anopheles superpictus and Anopheles pulcherrimus (Abramova et al, 2005), Anopheles darlingi (González et al, 2007), and Aedes aegypti (Julio et al, 2009). However, there are no reports of studies performed on the genetics of O. taeniorhynchus populations on the Colombian Atlantic coast using these types of markers.…”