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Genetic Differentiation in the African Malaria Vector,Anopheles gambiaes.s., and the Problem of Taxonomic Status
1 Aug 2002
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Of the seven recognized species of the Anopheles gambiae complex, A. gambiae s.s. is the most widespread and most important vector of malaria. It is becoming clear that, in parts of West Africa, this nominal species is not a single panmictic unit. We found that the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the X-linked rDNA has two distinct sequences with three fixed nucleotide differences; we detected no...
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