De novo assembly and sex-specific transcriptome profiling in the sand fly Phlebotomus perniciosus (Diptera, Phlebotominae), a major Old World vector of Leishmania infantum
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Sexing sand fly pupae (Diptera: psychodidade: phlebotominae).
We describe a technique to separate male and female pupae of sand flies. This has reduced the labour to separate flies after emergence and also allows the isolation of unmated adults for behavioural and physiological studies.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Genomics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2164
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2088-x