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Genetic diversity of Aedes vexans (Diptera, Culicidae) from New Orleans: pre- and post-Katrina.
Biochemical genetics - 1 Oct 2010
Solorzano Cesar D, Szalanski Allen L, Owens Carrie B, Steelman C Dayton
Abstract excerpt
The floodwater mosquito Aedes vexans, a potential vector of West Nile virus, has a worldwide distribution that includes the continental United States and southern Canada. In order to determine the effect that Hurricane Katrina had on the temporal genetic variation of Ae. vexans from New Orleans, we compared genetic diversity of a portion of the mtDNA ND5 gene of mosquito specimens collected during 2005 (n = 99)...
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