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Altitudinal variation in morphometric and molecular characteristics of Phlebotomus papatasi populations.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Dec 2004
Belen A, Alten B, Aytekin A M
Abstract excerpt
Four populations of the phlebotomine sandfly Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) papatasi (Scopoli) (Diptera: Psychodidae), in different ecoregions at altitudes between 368 and 1117 m in the Sanliurfa Province of Turkey, were compared using morphometric and isoenzyme analyses. A similarity phenogram obtained from allozyme data showed that heterozygosity was extremely low, particularly for the alleles which were found to be...
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