Hpall endonuclease distinguishes between two species in the Anopheles funestus group

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 273-277

  Koekemoer, L L ^a,b   Coetzee, M ^a   Hunt, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; DNA identification; Restriction enzyme endonuclease

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ANOPHELES VANEEDENI; ENDONUCLEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEL; MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; RESTRICTION ENZYME ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HPAII; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ANOPHELES VANEEDENI; FUNESTUS GROUP;

EID: 0032146497     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.1998.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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