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Interspecific hybridization and genetic variability of Phlebotomus sandflies.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Feb 1999
Ghosh K N, Mukhopadhyay J M, Guzman H, Tesh R B, Munstermann L E
Abstract excerpt
The first successful hybridization is reported between Phlebotomus papatasi and P. duboscqi, two important Old World sandfly vectors of leishmaniasis and other diseases. Laboratory strains of P. papatasi and P. duboscqi were separable by six diagnostic enzyme loci: Est-3, Idh-1, Mdh-2, Mpi, Tre-1 and Tre-3. Hybrids between the two species were verified by the recovery of heterozygous isozyme patterns for the...
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