Population and demographic structure of Ixodes scapularis Say in the eastern United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Sakamoto, Joyce M ^a   Goddard, Jerome ^b   Rasgon, Jason L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COI GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIATION; IXODERIN B GENE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYSOZYME GENE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL 16S RRNA GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SERPIN2 GENE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; IXODES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904266935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101389     Document Type: Article

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