Amazonian malaria vector anopheline relationships interpreted from ITS2 rDNA sequences

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 208-218

  Marrelli, M T ^a   Floeter Winter, L M ^a   Malafronte, R S ^a,b   Tadei, W P ^c   Lourenco De Oliveira R ^d   Flores Mendoza, C ^d   Marinotti, O ^a,e  

^a Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Anopheles; Brazil; ITS2; Malaria vectors; Molecular diagnostics; Nyssorhynchus; Ribosomal DNA; Second internal transcribed spacer; Species identification

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

DISEASE VECTOR;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALBITARSIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; NYSSORHYNCHUS; OSWALDOI;

EID: 20144361947     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-283X.2005.00558.x     Document Type: Article

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