Cytogenetic evidence for a species complex within Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae)

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 649-653

  Coetzee, Maureen ^a   Estrada Franco, Jose G ^b   Wunderlich, Colleen A ^c   Hunt, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation   (Grenada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOGENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032902488     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.649     Document Type: Article

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