Analyzing mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity in Pakistan by DNA barcoding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Ashfaq, Muhammad ^a   Hebert, Paul D N ^a   Mirza, Jawwad H ^b   Khan, Arif M ^b   Zafar, Yusuf ^c   Mirza, M Sajjad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES UNILINEATUS; AEDES W ALBUS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ANNULARIS; ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES DRAVIDICUS; ANOPHELES PEDITAENIATUS; ANOPHELES PULCHERRIMUS; ANOPHELES SPLENDIDUS; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ANOPHELES SUBPICTUS; ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX BITAENIORHYNCHUS; CULEX FUSCOCEPHALA; CULEX MIMETICUS; CULEX PEREXIGUUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX THEILERI; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; DNA BARCODING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS; OCHLEROTATUS PULCRITARSIS; PAKISTAN; PHAGOMYIA COGILLI; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; INSECT VECTORS; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901293954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097268     Document Type: Article

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