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Intraspecific variation within Phlebotomus sergenti Parrot (1917) (Diptera: Psychodidae) based on mtDNA sequences in Islamic Republic of Iran.
Acta tropica - 1 Apr 2007
Moin-Vaziri Vahideh, Depaquit Jérôme, Yaghoobi-Ershadi Mohammad-Reza, Oshaghi Mohammad-Ali, Derakhshandeh-Peykar Pupak, Ferté Hubert, Kaltenbach Matthieu, Bargues Maria Dolores, Léger Nicole, Nadim Aboulhassan
Abstract excerpt
An intraspecific study on the morphological and molecular characteristics of Phlebotomus sergenti s.l., the main vector of Leishmania tropica, was performed on 28 Iranian populations from 11 provinces and a few samples from Greece, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, and Syria. Three morphotypes were identified as A, B and C, with some intermediate forms in the samples under investigation. Based on the number of...
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