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Evaluating preservation methods for identifying Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles arabiensis complex mosquitoes species using near infra-red spectroscopy

BACKGROUND: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully used on fresh and RNAlater®-preserved members of the Anopheles gambiae complex to identify sibling species and age. No preservation methods other than using RNAlater® have been tested to preserve mosquitoes for species identificatio...

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Autores principales: Mayagaya, Valeriana Simon, Ntamatungiro, Alex John, Moore, Sarah Jane, Wirtz, Robert Andrew, Dowell, Floyd Ercell, Maia, Marta Ferreira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25623484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0661-4