Assessment of intraspecific mtDNA variability of European Ixodes ricinus sensu stricto (Acari: Ixodidae)

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-158

  Casati, S ^a   Bernasconi, M V ^b   Gern, L ^c   Piffaretti, J C ^a  

^a Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

12S rDNA; COI; COII; Control region; Cytb; DNA sequences; Europe; Ixodes ricinus; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BABESIOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; EUROPE; FINLAND; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACARI; ANIMALIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 39649124972     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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