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Phylogeography of the neotropical sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2002
Arrivillaga J C, Norris D E, Feliciangeli M D, Lanzaro G C
Abstract excerpt
Sand flies in the Lutzomyia longipalpis species complex include the primary vector of Leishmania chagasi, the etiologic agent of visceral leishmaniasis in the Neotropics. Twelve L. longipalpis populations from South and Central America were compared using the cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene from the mitochondrial genome. The haplotype profiles for each population revealed that the majority of sequence variation...
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