Genetic evidence against a morphologically suggestive conspecificity of Dermacentor reticulatus and D. marginatus (Acari:Ixodidae).

doi:10.1016/0020-7519(95)00081-x

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Genetic evidence against a morphologically suggestive conspecificity of Dermacentor reticulatus and D. marginatus (Acari:Ixodidae).

International journal for parasitology - 1 Dec 1995

Zahler M, Gothe R, Rinder H

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International Journal for Parasitology 25: 1413-1419. Dermacentor reticulatus and D. marginatus exhibit overlapping phenotypes. The possibility of conspecificity was investigated on the nucleotide level by comparing DNA sequences of the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS 2) of the rDNA gene....

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
DNA Primers
DNA, Ribosomal
Dermacentor
Genes, Insect
Molecular Sequence Data
Phenotype
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Genetic
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Species Specificity

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