Heteroduplex analysis in medical entomology: A rapid and sensitive sequence-based tool for population and phylogenetic studies

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 271-274

  Tang, Jianming ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETERODUPLEX;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLY; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; ZOOLOGY;

INSECTA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 0030758746     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)01062-4     Document Type: Article

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