Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among triatomine vectors of Chagas' disease

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-386

  Lyman, Daniel F ^a   Monteiro, Fernando A ^a   Escalante, Ananias A ^a   Cordon Rosales, Celia ^b   Wesson, Dawn M ^c   Dujardin, Jean Pierre ^d   Beard, Charles B ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Med Entomol Res Training Unit CDC   (Guatemala)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA; PSAMMOLESTES COREODES; REDUVIIDAE; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032951472     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.377     Document Type: Article

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