Molecular Differentiation of the African Yellow Fever Vector Aedes bromeliae (Diptera: Culicidae) from Its Sympatric Non-vector Sister Species, Aedes lilii

Kelly Louise Bennett; Yvonne-Marie Linton; Fortunate Shija; Martha Kaddumukasa; Rousseau Djouaka; Gerald Misinzo; Julius Lutwama; Yiau-Min Huang; Luke B. Mitchell; Miriam Richards; Eric Tossou; Catherine Walton

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004250

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Molecular Differentiation of the African Yellow Fever Vector Aedes bromeliae (Diptera: Culicidae) from Its Sympatric Non-vector Sister Species, Aedes lilii

Kelly Louise Bennett,

Affiliation Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Yvonne-Marie Linton,

Affiliations Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Centre, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Fortunate Shija,

Affiliations Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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Martha Kaddumukasa,

Affiliation Department of Arbovirology, Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
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Rousseau Djouaka,

Affiliation Agro-Eco-Health Platform for West and Central Africa, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Republic of Benin
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Gerald Misinzo,

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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Julius Lutwama,

Affiliation Department of Arbovirology, Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
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Yiau-Min Huang,

Affiliations Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Centre, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Luke B. Mitchell,

Affiliations Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Centre, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Miriam Richards,

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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Eric Tossou,

Affiliation Agro-Eco-Health Platform for West and Central Africa, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Republic of Benin
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Catherine Walton

* E-mail: Catherine.walton@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Molecular Differentiation of the African Yellow Fever Vector Aedes bromeliae (Diptera: Culicidae) from Its Sympatric Non-vector Sister Species, Aedes lilii

Kelly Louise Bennett,
Yvonne-Marie Linton,
Fortunate Shija,
Martha Kaddumukasa,
Rousseau Djouaka,
Gerald Misinzo,
Julius Lutwama,
Yiau-Min Huang,
Luke B. Mitchell,
Miriam Richards

Published: December 7, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004250

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