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Genetic differences in internal transcribed spacer 1 between Dermanyssus gallinae from wild birds and domestic chickens.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Jun 2008
Brännström S, Morrison D A, Mattsson J G, Chirico J
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the presence of the poultry red mite or the chicken mite, Dermanyssus gallinae De Geer, Acari: Dermanyssidae, in wild bird populations in four different geographical regions of Sweden. The mites identified as D. gallinae were compared genetically with D. gallinae from egg-producing poultry farms in the same regions. The small subunit (SSU) gene, the 5.8S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and the two...
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