Molecular differentiation of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the subgenus Culicoides Latreille in Denmark

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1765-1771

  Lassen, S B ^a   Achim Nielsen, S ^b   Skovgard H ^a   Kristensen, M ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CO1 GENE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES DELTUS; CULICOIDES GRISESCENS; CULICOIDES HALOPHILUS; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; DENMARK; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES GRISESCENS; CULICOIDES HALOPHILUS; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; DIPTERA; MONOCULICOIDES;

EID: 84863473223     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2697-5     Document Type: Article

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