Microsatellite characterization of subspecies and their hybrids in culex pipiens complex (diptera: culicidae) mosquitoes along a North-South transect in the central United States

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 236-248

  Kothera, Linda ^a   Zimmerman, Erin M ^a   Richards, Christopher M ^b   Savage, Harry M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENETIC RESOURCES PRESERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens complex; Culex quinquefasciatus; Hybridization; Microsatellites; Transect

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CULEX; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ILLINOIS; LOUISIANA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MISSISSIPPI;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 63749090573     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/033.046.0208     Document Type: Article

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