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Phylogeographical structure of the tick Ixodes persulcatus: a novel view.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Sept 2012
Kovalev Sergey Y, Mukhacheva Tatyana A
Abstract excerpt
The tick Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930, has a wide distribution from the Baltic to the Far East and is a vector of a number of human pathogens. Thus, the study of the genetic structure and evolution of this species is of great epidemiological importance. rRNA genes were used as genetic markers to identify the phylogeographical structure of the ticks. The sequences of gene fragments of 28S (expansion segment...
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