A multiplex PCR-based molecular identification of five morphologically related, medically important subgenus stegomyia mosquitoes from the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) found in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 312-316

  Higa, Yukiko ^a   Toma, Takako ^b   Tsuda, Yoshio ^c   Miyagi, Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES DAITENSIS; AEDES FLAVOPICTUS; AEDES RIVERSI; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME SIZE; GENUS; JAPAN; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STEGOMYIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; INSECT VECTORS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957734925     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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