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Molecular identification and phylogeny of Dermacentor nuttalli (Acari: Ixodidae).
Parasitology research - 1 May 2014
Kulakova Nina V, Khasnatinov Maxim A, Sidorova Elena A, Adel'shin Renat V, Belikov Sergei I
Abstract excerpt
Dermacentor nuttalli is an epidemiologically important tick in Palearctic Asia which transmits several infectious diseases including tularemia, North Asian tick-borne rickettsiosis, Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis. The genetic specificity and phylogeny of D. nuttalli from four geographic localities in Eastern Siberia were characterized using the mitochondrial (mt) 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and...
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