Taxonomic assessment of Culicoides brunnicans, C. santonicus and C. vexans (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in France: Implications in systematics

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 324-331

  Hadj Henni, L ^a   De Meulemeester, T ^b   Mathieu, B ^c   Depaquit, J ^a   Augot, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

C. Santonicus; C. Vexans; Culicoides brunnicans; Phylogenetic analysis; Taxonomy; Wing geometric morphometrics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES BRUNNICANS; CULICOIDES FURENS; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES SANTONICUS; CULICOIDES VEXANS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FRANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; WING;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES FURENS; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES VEXANS; DIPTERA;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84937974842     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.05.024     Document Type: Article

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