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J Parasit Dis Diagn Ther 2017 | Volume 2 Issue 4
International Conference on
Zoology, Microbiology & Medical Parasitology
October 30-November 01, 2017 | Chicago, USA
F
lies belonging to the family Muscidae are the most
cosmopolitan among the insects. This family is amply
represented inall biogeographical regionswithapproximately
5000 described species within 170 genera (Kutty et al.,
2008). They are of great importance to medicine because
of their ability to transmit diseases to humans and animals.
Adults of many species are passive vectors of pathogens
for diseases like typhoid fever, dysentery, anthrax, cholera
and African sleeping sickness (Kettle, 1995). Immature
stages of many species of the Muscid flies have similar
morphological characters that make their identification
difficult (Benecke and Wells, 2001). To solve these problems
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) based methods for species
identification are used. Animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
has been used extensively in studies of evolutionary and
population genetics in recent years (Avise et al., 1987). The
present study is designed to help us the identification for 5
species of family Muscidae. The flies were collected from
various districts of Punjab during March 2016 to September
2016. The mt cytochrome oxidase subunit II (COII) has been
used for this purpose. This gene has been extensively used
to address phylogenetic questions in insects at different
taxonomic level.
e:
Ramandeep_rs@pbi.ac.inA preliminary study on mitochondrial DNA of some species of family Muscidae (Diptera) of INDIA
Devinder Singh
and
Ramandeep Achint
punjab University, India