The type and mysorensis forms of the Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae) in India exhibit identical ribosomal DNA ITS2 and domain-3 sequences

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-80

  Alam, Mohammad Tauqeer ^a   Bora, Hema ^a   Das, Manoj K ^b   Sharma, Yagya D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLY; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; INDIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 43049148288     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0930-7     Document Type: Article

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