Development and application of species ID and insecticide resistance assays, for monitoring sand fly Leishmania vectors in the Mediterranean basin and in the Middle East

• Sofia Balaska ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sofia_balaska@imbb.forth.gr (SB); vontas@imbb.forth.gr (JV)

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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• Jahangir Khajehali,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

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• Konstantinos Mavridis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

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• Mustafa Akiner,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Department of Biology, Zoology Section, Rize, Turkey

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• Kyriaki Maria Papapostolou,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

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• Latifa Remadi,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

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• Ilias Kioulos,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Michail Miaoulis,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation European Biological Control Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Emmanouil Alexandros Fotakis,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Alexandra Chaskopoulou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Biological Control Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• John Vontas

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sofia_balaska@imbb.forth.gr (SB); vontas@imbb.forth.gr (JV)

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8704-2574

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