Delineation of culicoides species by morphology and barcode exemplified by three new species of the subgenus culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from scandinavia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nielsen, Soren Achim ^a   Kristensen, Michael ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bluetongue virus; COI; Culicoides; DNA barcodes; Morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; DENMARK; DNA BARCODING; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; DIPTERA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84925397306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0750-4     Document Type: Article

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