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Genetic structure of local populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in central Colombia.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Jan 1998
Munstermann L E, Morrison A C, Ferro C, Pardo R, Torres M
Abstract excerpt
Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva), the sand fly vector of American visceral leishmaniasis in the New World tropics, has a broad but discontinuous geographical distribution from southern Mexico to Argentina. A baseline for population genetic structure and genetic variability for this species was obtained by analyzing 5 local, peridomestic populations at the approximate center of its distribution, the Magdalena...
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