Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-535

  Nicolescu, G ^a   Linton, Y M ^b   Vladimirescu, A ^a   Howard, T M ^b   Harbach, R E ^b  

^a CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOSQUITO; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ROMANIA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANOPHELES ATROPARVUS; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; ANOPHELES MELANOON; ANOPHELES MESSEAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA; MACULIPENNIS GROUP;

EID: 8844253984     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BER2004330     Document Type: Article

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