A review of the systematics of the tick family argasidae (ixodida)

Acarologia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-333

  Estrada Pena, Agustín ^a   Mangold, Atilio J ^b   Nava, Santiago ^b   Venzal, José M ^c   Labruna, Marcelo ^d   Guglielmone, Alberto A ^b  

^a Lab Genet Bioquim Grupos S   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

16S sequences; Argasidae; Cladistics; Ecology; Morphology; Phylogenetic relationships

Indexed keywords

ARGASIDAE; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 77954531459     PISSN: 0044586X     EISSN: 21077207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20101975     Document Type: Review

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