Genetic characterization of ticks from southwestern Romania by sequences of mitochondrial cox1 and nad5 genes

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-311

  Chitimia, Lidia ^a,d   Lin, Rui Qing ^a   Cosoroaba, Iustin ^b   Wu, Xiang Yun ^c   Song, Hui Qun ^a   Yuan, Zi Guo ^a   Zhu, Xing Quan ^a,e  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Romania)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health   (Romania)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene (cox1); Mitochondrial DNA; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 5 gene (nad5); Phylogenetic analysis; Romania; Ticks

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

CYTOCHROME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARGAS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DERMACENTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; ROMANIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARGAS; DERMACENTOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; IXODES; NAD; PHYLOGENY; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

CHINA; ROMANIA;

ARGAS; ARGAS PERSICUS; ARGASIDAE; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 77957785458     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-010-9365-9     Document Type: Article

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