Genetic variation in Glossina brevipalpis, G.longipennis and G.pallidipes, and the phenetic relationships of Glossina species.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.1991.tb00537.x

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Genetic variation in Glossina brevipalpis, G.longipennis and G.pallidipes, and the phenetic relationships of Glossina species.

Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Apr 1991

Gooding R H, Moloo S K, Rolseth B M

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Glossina brevipalpis Newstead, G.longipennis Corti, and G.pallidipes Austen maintained at ILRAD, Nairobi, Kenya, were examined for genetic variation of fourteen enzyme loci, using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. G.brevipalpis had six polymorphic loci, an average of 1.46 effective alleles per...

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Alleles
Animals
Enzymes
Female
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Male
Tsetse Flies

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