Molecular phylogeny and typing of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) that serve as vectors of human or bovine onchocerciasis.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.1996.tb00735.x

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Molecular phylogeny and typing of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) that serve as vectors of human or bovine onchocerciasis.

Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Jul 1996

Tang J, Pruess K, Cupp E W, Unnasch T R

Abstract excerpt

A subregion of the mitochondrial large subunit (16s) rRNA gene was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from nine species of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) which serve as natural or experimental vectors of human or bovine Onchocerca parasites. PCR products from each species of blackfly...

Topics

Animals
Cattle
Cattle Diseases
Genotype
Humans
Insect Vectors
Onchocerciasis
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sequence Alignment
Simuliidae

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