Discriminating between ixodes ticks by means of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 361-365

  Caporale, Diane A ^a,c   Rich, Stephen M ^b   Spielman, Andrew ^b   Telford, Sam R ^b   Kocher, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMACENTOR; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IXODES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; DERMACENTOR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029439216     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1995.1033     Document Type: Article

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