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Mitochondrial diversity of Musca domestica housefly populations in the Asian and western Pacific biogeographical regions.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Dec 2003
Marquez J G, Bangs M J, Krafsur E S
Abstract excerpt
Houseflies (Musca domestica L., Diptera: Muscidae) are cosmopolitan, colonizing, and eusynanthropic. Their distribution in the Malaysian archipelago provides an opportunity to study successive waves of colonization and extinction during the Pleistocene and Recent epochs. We scored single-strand conformation polymorphisms (SSCPs) at 16S2 and COII mitochondrial loci in 47 housefly samples from the Australian,...
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