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ESTIMATION OF DIVERGENCE TIME BETWEEN TWO SIBLING SPECIES OF THE ANOPHELES (KERTESZIA) CRUZII COMPLEX USING A MULTILOCUS APPROACH
Rona, Luísa D. P. et al. | Date Issued: 2010
Author
Rona, Luísa D. P.
Pinto, Carlos J. Carvalho
Mazzoni, Camila J.
Peixoto, Alexandre A.
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
University College Cork. Environmental Research Institute. Cork, Ireland / Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research. Evolutionary Genetics Group. Berlin, Germany.,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Abstract
Anopheles cruzii is the primary human Plasmodium vector in southern and southeastern Brazil. The distribution of this mosquito follows the coast of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Previous studies indicated that An. cruzii is a complex of cryptic species.
Keywords in Portuguese
Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii
espécies irmãs
Brasil
espécies enigmáticas
 
Keywords
Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii
sibling species
Brazil
cryptic species
 
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BioMed Central
Citation
RONA, Luísa D. P. et al. Estimation of divergence time between two sibling species of the Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii complex using a multilocus approach. BMC Evolutionary Biology, v.10:91, 9p, 2010.
DOI
10.1186/1471-2148-10-91
ISSN
1471-2148