A new species concealed by Anopheles funestus giles, a major malaria vector in Africa

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 510-515

  Spillings, Belinda L ^a,b   Brooke, Basil D ^a,b   Koekemoer, Lizette L ^a,b   Chiphwanya, John ^c   Coetzee, Maureen ^a,b   Hunt, Richard H ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Malawi National Malaria Control Program   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

AFRICA; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRID GENE; MALAWI; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS;

EID: 69249164051     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.510     Document Type: Article

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