Micro- and minisatellite-expressed sequence tag (EST) markers discriminate between populations of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 128-136

  Kanduma, Esther G ^a,b   Mwacharo, Joram M ^c   Sunter, Jack D ^d   Nzuki, Inosters ^a   Mwaura, Stephen ^e   Kinyanjui, Peter W ^b   Kibe, Michael ^b   Heyne, Heloise ^f   Hanotte, Olivier ^c   Skilton, Robert A ^a   Bishop, Richard P ^e  

^a International Livestock Research Institute   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Brown ear tick; Genetic diversity; Genetic markers; Simple sequence repeats; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MINISATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBEZIENSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; RHIPICEPHALUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THEILERIA PARVA;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ELEUSINE CORACANA SUBSP. CORACANA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PROTOZOA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBEZIENSIS; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 84864769383     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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