The new Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 diagnostic tool clarifies the taxonomic position and geographic distribution of the North American malaria vector Anopheles punctipennis.
James M HodgeAndrey A YurchenkoDmitriy A KaragodinReem A MasriRyan C SmithMikhail I GordeevMaria V SharakhovaPublished in: Malaria journal (2021)
This study developed molecular tools based on ITS2 sequences for the malaria vector An. punctipennis and clarified the phylogenetic position of the species within the Maculipennis group.