A guide to the simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Nigeria, with a cytotaxonomic key for the identification of the sibling species

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 277-297

  Post, R J ^a,b   Onyenwe, E ^a,c   Somiari, S A E ^d   Mafuyai, H B ^d   Crainey, J L ^e   Ubachukwu, P O ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^d WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CYTOTAXONOMY; HUMAN; HYDROLOGY; LARVA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM DIEGUERENSE; SIMULIUM SANCTIPAULI; SIMULIUM SIRBANUM; SIMULIUM SOUBRENSE; SIMULIUM SQUAMOSUM; SIMULIUM SUDANENSE; SIMULIUM YAHENSE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; NIGERIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIBLING RELATIONS; SIMULIIDAE;

DAMNOSUM COMPLEX; DIPTERA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM;

EID: 79959436392     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485911X12987676649700     Document Type: Article

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