Gene flow between natural and domestic populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a restricted focus of American visceral leishmaniasis in Venezuela.

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The epidemiology of the visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas is associated with both a natural and a domestic cycle. The existence of reproductively isolated populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva), and the scarcity of records of this species from natural habitats in areas where it has been associated with domestic habitats indicated that natural populations could be genetically distinct from...

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