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Morphological characters of adult Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara in Venezuela.

Yasmín Rubio-Palis, Richard Charles Wilkerson, Hernán Guzmán

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A morphometric study was carried out to find diagnostic characters with which to update taxonomic keys for field identification of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara and the 3 other sympatric Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) species (An. darlingi, An. argyritarsis, and An. braziliensis) that occur in Venezuela. Diagnostic random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction markers from wild-caught specimens showed that An. marajoara was the only species in the Anopheles albitarsis complex collected in Venezuela.

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Key concepts: Biology, Sympatric speciation, Anopheles, Zoology, Polymerase chain reaction, Genetics, Malaria, Gene