DNA barcoding and surveillance sampling strategies for Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in southern India.

LE, Harrup; S, Laban; BV, Purse; YK, Reddy; YN, Reddy; SM, Byregowda; N, Kumar; KM, Purushotham; S, Kowalli; M, Prasad; G, Prasad; AA, Bettis; Keyser R, De; J, Logan; C, Garros; D, Gopurenko; G, Bellis; K, Labuschagne; B, Mathieu; S, Carpenter

doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1722-z

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DNA barcoding and surveillance sampling strategies for Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in southern India.

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Harrup LE

Laban S

Purse BV

Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Culicoides spp. biting midges transmit bluetongue virus (BTV), the aetiological agent of bluetongue (BT), an economically important disease of ruminants. In southern India, hyperendemic outbreaks of BT exert high cost to subsistence farmers in the region, impacting on sheep produc...

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Culicoides

Bluetongue virus

COI

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