Molecular phylogeny and typing of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) that serve as vectors of human or bovine onchocerciasis

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 228-234

  Tang, Jianming ^a   Pruess, Kenneth ^b   Cupp, Eddie W ^c   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; directed heteroduplex analysis; molecular phylogenetics; onchocerciasis vectors; Simuliidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; DIPTERA; NEARCTIC; ONCHOCERCA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM DECORUM; SIMULIUM METALLICUM; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM NOELLERI; SIMULIUM VITTATUM;

EID: 0030185180     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1996.tb00735.x     Document Type: Article

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