The Mitochondrial Genomes of Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae) and Argas africolumbae (Ixodoidae: Argasidae): Estimation of Divergence Dates for the Major Tick Lineages and Reconstruction of Ancestral Blood-Feeding Characters

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Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Mans, Ben J ^a,b   de Klerk, Daniel ^a   Pienaar, Ronel ^a   de Castro, Minique H ^a   Latif, Abdalla A ^a,b  

^a ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARGAS AFRICOLUMBAE; ARTICLE; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTB GENE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVAL STAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MONOPHYLY; MOUSE; ND1 GENE; ND2 GENE; ND4 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTTALLIELLA NAMAQUA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BAYES THEOREM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; TICKS;

ARGAS; ARGASIDAE; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; IXODOIDEA; MUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84869078466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049461     Document Type: Article

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