Phylogeny of hard- and soft-tick taxa (Acari: Ixodida) based on mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences.
- W. Black, J. Piesman
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 11 October 1994
The derived phylogeny failed to support a monophyletic relationship among members of Ornithodorinae and supported placement of Argasinae as basal to the Ixodidae, suggesting that hard ticks may have originated from an Argas-like ancestor, and supports earlier suggestions thathard ticks did not evolve until the late Cretaceous.
A mutation in the voltage‐gated sodium channel gene associated with pyrethroid resistance in Latin American Aedes aegypti
- K. Saavedra-Rodriguez, L. Urdaneta-Marquez, W. Black
- BiologyInsect molecular biology (Print)
- 1 December 2007
The tools and information presented provide a means for early detection and characterization of kdr that is critical to the development of strategies for resistance management and showed a high rate of recombination even though the two codons are only separated by a ~250 bp intron.
Population genetics of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) based on mitochondrial 16S and 12S genes.
- D. E. Norris, J. Klompen, J. E. Keirans, W. Black
- BiologyJournal of medical entomology
- 1996
Analysis of sequence variation in the 16S and 12S mitochondrial ribosomal DNA genes suggests that I. scapularis arose in the South but that a large geographic split gave rise to 2 distinct lineages now interbreed and are partially sympatric.
Mitochondrial gene order is not conserved in arthropods: prostriate and metastriate tick mitochondrial genomes.
- W. Black, R. Roehrdanz
- BiologyMolecular biology and evolution
- 1 December 1998
The entire mitochondrial genome was sequenced in a prostriate tick, Ixodes hexagonus, and a metastriate tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Both genomes encode 22 tRNAs, 13 proteins, and two ribosomal…
A FORTRAN program for the calculation and analysis of two-locus linkage disequilibrium coefficients
- W. Black, E. Krafsur
- BiologyTheoretical and Applied Genetics
- 1 August 1985
A FORTRAN program was written that calculates composite linkage disequilibrium coefficients from genotypic data and output obtained from analysis of allozyme data collected from natural subpopulations of the house fly are included to illustrate features of the program.
Comparative genomics of small RNA regulatory pathway components in vector mosquitoes
- C. Campbell, W. Black, A. Hess, B. Foy
- Biology, MedicineBMC Genomics
- 18 September 2008
Analysis of Argonaute and PIWI subfamily genes suggests that the small regulatory RNA pathways of the major arbovirus vectors, Ae.
Population genetics with RAPD-PCR markers: the breeding structure of Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico
- B. Apostol, W. Black, P. Reiter, B. Miller
- Biology, MedicineHeredity
- 1 April 1996
RAPD-PCR polymorphisms at 57 presumptive loci were used to examine the breeding structure of the mosquito Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico and demonstrated that small samples inflate FST and linkage disequilibrium.
Flavivirus susceptibility in Aedes aegypti.
- W. Black, Kristine E Bennett, B. Beaty
- Medicine, BiologyArchives of Medical Research
- 1 July 2002
Breeding structure of Aedes aegypti populations in Mexico varies by region.
- N. Gorrochotegui-Escalante, C. Gomez-Machorro, W. Black
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- 1 February 2002
Regression analysis of geographic distances and F(ST) values indicated that collections were genetically isolated by distance in the Pacific and the Yucatan, but not among collections in the northeast, suggesting extensive gene flow along the Pacific coast.
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