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Ovarian polytene chromosome map, notes on the status, morphology, biology and a new distribution record of Anopheles (Cellia) mousinhoi (Diptera: Culicidae)
Author(s) -
HUNT RICHARD H.,
COETZEE MAUREEN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1992.tb00321.x
Subject(s) - polytene chromosome , biology , cytotaxonomy , morphology (biology) , chromosome , zoology , anopheles , evolutionary biology , x chromosome , karyotype , genetics , malaria , gene , immunology
. An ovarian polytene chromosome map of Anopheles mousinhoi is presented with a discussion of chromosome arm associations and X chromosome homologies with the An.marshallii complex of species. Scanning electron microscopy of the previously undescribed egg shows marked similarities between An.mousinhoi and An.funestus. Major morphological differences between An. mousinhoi and the An. marshallii complex are described. Anopheles mousinhoi is recorded from South Africa for the first time.