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Assessing the molecular divergence between Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii populations from Brazil using the timeless gene: further evidence of a species complex.
Malaria journal - 9 Apr 2009
Rona Luísa D P, Carvalho-Pinto Carlos J, Gentile Carla, Grisard Edmundo C, Peixoto Alexandre A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii was the most important vector of human malaria in southern Brazil between 1930-1960. Nowadays it is still considered an important Plasmodium spp. vector in southern and south-eastern Brazil, incriminated for oligosymptomatic malaria. Previous studies based on the analysis of X chromosome banding patterns and inversion frequencies in An. cruzii populations from these areas...
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