Phylogeny and host specificity of psoroptic mange mites (Acarina: Psoroptidae) as indicated by ITS sequence data

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 791-796

  Ramey, Rob Roy ^a,b   Kelley, Scott Theodore ^a   Boyce, Walter Miles ^a,c   Farrell, Brian Dorsey ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Denver Museum Natural History   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Internal transcriber spacer region; Parasitism; Phylogeny; Psoroptes

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MITE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MITES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0034324069     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-37.6.791     Document Type: Article

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