Title |
Probing functional polymorphisms in the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, October 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-14-739 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mariangela Bonizzoni, Monica Britton, Osvaldo Marinotti, William Augustine Dunn, Joseph Fass, Anthony A James |
Abstract |
Dengue is the most prevalent arboviral disease world-wide and its primary vector is the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The current lack of commercially-available vaccines makes control of vector populations the only effective strategy to prevent dengue transmission. Aedes aegypti geographic populations exhibit great variability in insecticide resistance and susceptibility to dengue infection. The characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as molecular markers to study quantitatively this variation is needed greatly because this species has a low abundance of microsatellite markers and limited known restriction fragments length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) markers. |
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