Towards the PCR-based identification of Palaearctic Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): results from an international ring trial targeting four species of the subgenus Avaritia

Claire Garros; Thomas Balenghien; Simon Carpenter; Jean-Claude Delecolle; Rudy Meiswinkel; Aurelie Pedarrieu; Ignace Rakotoarivony; Laetitia Gardes; Nick Golding; James Barber; Miguel Miranda; David Borras Borras; Maria Goffredo; Federica Monaco; Nonito Pages; Soufien Sghaier; Salah Hammami; Jorge H Calvo; Javier Lucientes; Dirk Geysen; Gill De Deken; Victor Sarto i Monteys; Jan Schwenkenbecher; Helge Kampen; Bernd Hoffmann; Kathrin Lehmann; Doreen Werner; Thierry Baldet; Renaud Lancelot; Catherine Cetre-Sossah

Journal article

Towards the PCR-based identification of Palaearctic Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): results from an international ring trial targeting four species of the subgenus Avaritia

Claire Garros, Thomas Balenghien, Simon Carpenter, Jean-Claude Delecolle, Rudy Meiswinkel, Aurelie Pedarrieu, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Laetitia Gardes, Nick Golding, James Barber, Miguel Miranda, David Borras Borras, Maria Goffredo, Federica Monaco, Nonito Pages, Soufien Sghaier, Salah Hammami, Jorge H Calvo, Javier Lucientes, Dirk Geysen Show all

Parasites & Vectors | BMC | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-223

University of Melbourne Researchers

Nicholas Golding Author BioSciences

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Awarded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the MedReoNet Project No. 044285 from the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission, SSPE-CT-2006-044285. We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.