Development of a Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Differentiation between Culex pipiens pipiens and Cx. p. quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North America Based on Genomic Differences Identified by Subtractive Hybridization

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 532-537

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

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

Author keywords

Culex pipiens complex; Polymerase chain reaction assay; Species identification; Subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; GENE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031228298     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/34.5.532     Document Type: Article

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