Morphological variability in the malaria vector, Anopheles moucheti, is not indicative of speciation: Evidences from sympatric south Cameroon populations

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-72

  Antonio Nkondjio, Christophe ^a   Simard, Frédéric ^a   Cohuet, Anna ^b   Fontenille, Didier ^b  

^a Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Anopheles moucheti; Cameroon; Isozyme; Malaria; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME VARIATION; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALARIA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANOPHELES MOUCHETI;

ISOENZYME;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CAMEROON; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ISOENZYMES; MALARIA;

EID: 0036791648     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(02)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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