Heterogeneity of ITS1 sequences in the biting midge Culicoides impunctatus (Goetghebuer) suggest a population in Argyll, Scotland, may be genetically distinct

Genome

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 546-558

  Ritchie, Allyson ^a   Blackwell, Alison ^b   Malloch, Gaynor ^a   Fenton, Brian ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culicoides; ITS1; Phylogeny; rDNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 4143147702     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g04-003     Document Type: Article

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