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Important Dispersal Capacity of One Main Species Vector of Bluetongue and Schmallenberg Viruses Culicoides Obsoletus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Revealed by Landscape Genetic Analyses
2020-09-16
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<h4>Background: </h4> In the last two decades, recurrent epizootics of bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus have been reported in the western Palearctic region. These viruses affect domestic cattle, sheep, goats and wild ruminants and are transmitted by native hematophagous midges of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Culicoides dispersal is known to be stratified, i.e. due to a combination of di...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 950d2c63-b821-5104-8d3a-37911d4bd3ad
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-75603/v1
