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Genetic divergence in the cacophony IVS6 intron among five Brazilian populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 2004
Bottecchia M, Oliveira S G, Bauzer L G S R, Souza N A, Ward R D, Garner K J, Kyriacou C P, Peixoto A A
Abstract excerpt
Genes involved in the reproductive isolation are particularly useful as molecular markers in speciation studies. Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), a putative species complex, is a vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Latin America. We isolated from this species a fragment homologous to cacophony, a Drosophila gene that encodes features of the lovesong, an acoustic signal that is...
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