DNA identification of museum specimens of the Anopheles gambiae complex: An evaluation of PCR as a tool for resolving the formal taxonomy of sibling species complexes

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-100

  Townson, Harold ^b   Harbach, Ralph E ^a   Callan, Tara A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 0003135331     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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