Morphological and molecular identification of species of the Obsoletus group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Scandinavia

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1133-1141

  Nielsen, Søren Achim ^a   Kristensen, Michael ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STEREOMICROSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANDINAVIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP;

AVARITIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DIPTERA;

EID: 83155180679     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2357-9     Document Type: Article

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