Phylogeny of fourteen Culex mosquito species, including the Culex pipiens complex, inferred from the internal transcribed spacers of ribosomal DNA

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-107

  Miller, B R ^a,c   Crabtree, M B ^a   Savage, H M ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex; Culex pipiens complex; rDNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULEX; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030152932     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1996.tb00044.x     Document Type: Article

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