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Application of DNA markers to identify the individual-specific hosts of tsetse feeding on cattle.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Mar 2001
Torr S J, Wilson P J, Schofield S, Mangwiro T N, Akber S, White B N
Abstract excerpt
Primer sets for five different ungulate loci were used to obtain individual microsatellite DNA profiles for 29 Mashona cattle from a herd in Zimbabwe. There were 3-13 alleles for each locus and, using the entire suite of five loci, each animal within the herd, including closely related individuals, could be unequivocally distinguished. Wild-caught Glossina pallidipes Austen (Diptera: Glossinidae) were fed on...
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