DNA barcoding: Complementing morphological identification of mosquito species in Singapore

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chan, Abigail ^a   Chiang, Lee Pei ^b   Hapuarachchi, Hapuarachchige C ^a   Tan, Cheong Huat ^a   Pang, Sook Cheng ^a   Lee, Ruth ^a   Lee, Kim Sung ^c   Ng, Lee Ching ^a   Lam Phua, Sai Gek ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^b Shizenature Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

COI; DNA barcode; Identification; Mosquitoes; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES SINENSIS; ARTICLE; CULEX; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1 GENE; DNA BARCODING; GENE SEQUENCE; IMAGO; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SINGAPORE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84989163830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0569-4     Document Type: Article

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