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SUBMITTER: Mazzoni CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2413237 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mazzoni Camila J CJ Araki Alejandra S AS Ferreira Gabriel E M GE Ferreira Gabriel E M GE Azevedo Renata V D M RV Barbujani Guido G Peixoto Alexandre A AA
BMC evolutionary biology 20080512
<h4>Background</h4>The phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera:Psychodidae) Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia Lutz & Neiva 1912 and Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani Antunes & Coutinho 1932 are two very closely related species and important vectors of American cutaneous leishmaniasis. Two single-locus studies have revealed evidence for introgression between the two species in both mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. These findings have prompted the development of a multilocus approach to investigate in more ...[more]