Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Richard C. Wilkerson; Yvonne-Marie Linton; Dina M. Fonseca; Ted R. Schultz; Dana C. Price; Daniel A. Strickman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133602

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Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Richard C. Wilkerson ,

* E-mail: wilkersonr@si.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America
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Yvonne-Marie Linton,

Affiliations Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Faculty of Preventative Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Dina M. Fonseca,

Affiliation Entomology Department, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Ted R. Schultz,

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America
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Dana C. Price,

Affiliation Entomology Department, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Daniel A. Strickman

Affiliation Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Richard C. Wilkerson,
Yvonne-Marie Linton,
Dina M. Fonseca,
Ted R. Schultz,
Dana C. Price,
Daniel A. Strickman

Published: July 30, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133602

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Table 1 Reformatted

Posted by wilkersonr on 11 Aug 2015 at 18:21 GMT

Table 1 was not published as submitted by the authors. For a more clearly formatted table with the same data please see: http://www.mosquitocatalo....

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