Cryptic Genetic Diversity within the Anopheles nili group of Malaria Vectors in the Equatorial Forest Area of Cameroon (Central Africa)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ndo, Cyrille ^a,b,c   Simard, Frédéric ^b   Kengne, Pierre ^a,b   Awono Ambene, Parfait ^a   Morlais, Isabelle ^a,b   Sharakhov, Igor ^d   Fontenille, Didier ^b   Antonio Nkondjio, Christophe ^a,e  

^a Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES NILI; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CAMEROON; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREES;

EID: 84875040918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058862     Document Type: Article

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