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Emerging vectors in the Culex pipiens complex.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 5 Mar 2004
Fonseca Dina M, Keyghobadi Nusha, Malcolm Colin A, Mehmet Ceylan, Schaffner Francis, Mogi Motoyoshi, Fleischer Robert C, Wilkerson Richard C
Abstract excerpt
In the Old World, some mosquitoes in the Culex pipiens complex are excellent enzootic vectors of West Nile virus, circulating the virus among birds, whereas others bite mainly humans and other mammals. Here we show that, in northern Europe, such forms differing in behavior and physiology have unique microsatellite fingerprints with no evidence of gene flow between them, as would be expected from distinct species....
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