“…, 2005). Prior to the 1980s, it was even speculated that the chromosomes of anopheline mosquitoes were simply more permissive or tolerant of inversions than the chromosomes of culicines (Rai & Hartberg, 1975). However, by the late 1970s, cytogenetic techniques had improved sufficiently for researchers to document abundant inversions in the culicine genera Culex (Tewfik & Barr, 1976), Wyeomyia (Moeur & Istock, 1982), Orthopodomyia (Munstermann et al.…”