Crossbreeding between different geographical populations of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-68

  Levin, M L ^a   Studer, E ^a   Killmaster, L ^a   Zemtsova, G ^a   Mumcuoglu, K Y ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conspecificity; Hybridization; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Reproductive incompatibility; Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONY; FECUNDITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OUTCROSSING; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; ISRAEL; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REUNION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ISRAEL; MALE; OKLAHOMA; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; REUNION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

AFRICA; ISRAEL; NORTH AMERICA;

ACARI; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 84864288923     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9561-x     Document Type: Article

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