Genotyping North American black flies by means of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA sequences

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-46

  Tang, Jianming ^a   Pruess, Kenneth ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0342271503     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z96-006     Document Type: Article

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