Barcoding blood meals: New vertebrate-specific primer sets for assigning taxonomic identities to host DNA from mosquito blood meals.

• Principais autores: Lawrence E Reeves (Autor), Jennifer L Gillett-Kaufman (Autor), Akito Y Kawahara (Autor), Phillip E Kaufman (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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The transmission dynamics of mosquito-vectored pathogens are, in part, mediated by mosquito host-feeding patterns. These patterns are elucidated using blood meal analysis, a collection of serological and molecular techniques that determine the taxonomic identities of the host animals from which bloo...