Biting midges monitoring (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides Latreille) in the governate of Monastir (Tunisia): Species composition and molecular investigations

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2435-2443

  Slama, D ^a,c,e   Chaker, E ^a,d   Mathieu, B ^b   Babba, H ^a,e   Depaquit, J ^c   Augot, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^d Laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology   (Tunisia)

^e Pediatric Surgery Department   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

C. circumscriptus; C. imicola; C. jumineri; C. kingi; C. langeroni; C. newsteadi; C. paolae; C. puncticollis; C. sahariensis; Culicoides cataneii gejgelensis; Monastir; mtDNA; rDNA; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA 28S; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CATANEII GEJGELENSIS; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES JUMINERI; CULICOIDES KINGI; CULICOIDES PUNCTICOLLIS; CULICOIDES SAHARIENSIS; DIPTERA; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEMATOCERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TUNISIA;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES CATANEII; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES PUNCTICOLLIS; CULICOIDES SAHARIENSIS; DIPTERA;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUNISIA;

EID: 84903818743     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-3873-1     Document Type: Article

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