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Development of a DNA barcoding system for the Ixodida (Acari: Ixodida).
Mitochondrial DNA - 1 Apr 2014
Lv Jizhou, Wu Shaoqiang, Zhang Yongning, Zhang Tianyi, Feng Chunyan, Jia Guangle, Lin Xiangmei
Abstract excerpt
To control the spread of tick-borne diseases, there is an urgent need to develop a reliable technique that can distinguish different species of ticks. DNA barcoding has been proved to be a powerful tool to identify species of arthropods, but this technique has not yet been developed for identifying ticks. Here, we screened and analyzed 1082 sequences of ticks from BOLD system and GenBank, consisting of 647 16S,...
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