Discrimination of Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides scoticus, potential bluetongue vectors, by morphometrical and mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I analysis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 629-637

  Augot, D ^a   Sauvage, F ^b   Jouet, D ^a   Simphal, E ^a   Veuille, M ^c   Couloux, A ^d   Kaltenbach, M L ^a   Depaquit, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Barcode; Culicoides obsoletus; Culicoides scoticus; Cytochrome C oxidase I; France; Morphometric analyse

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FLY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STEREOMICROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DIPTERA;

EID: 77953232933     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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