Genetic polymorphism of morphological and biochemical characters in a Natal, Brazil, population of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-282

  Mukhopadhyay, Jaba ^a   Ghosh, Kashinath ^a   Azevedo, Alfredo C R ^b   Rangel, Elizabeth F ^b   Munstermann, Leonard E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Genetic variability; Isoenzymes; Leishmaniasis; Lutzomyia longipalpis; Morphology; Phlebotomine sand flies; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PSYCHODIDAE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHODIDAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032162042     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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