{"title":"Identification of the larvae of the Simulium damnosum complex from Nigeria by analysis of cuticular hydrocarbons.","authors":"H B Mafuyai, A Phillips, D H Molyneux, P Milligan","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The larvae of three sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex were studied with a view to identification, using a Gas Liquid Chromatograph to analyze the hydrocarbons in the cuticular wax extracts. Multivariate statistics were applied to the chromatographic data to differentiate three sibling species: S. damnosum s.s., S. squamosum and S. yahense. Paired comparisons between the species gave greater than 96% correct classifications in all cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":77449,"journal":{"name":"Tropical medicine and parasitology : official organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)","volume":"45 2","pages":"130-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tropical medicine and parasitology : official organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The larvae of three sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex were studied with a view to identification, using a Gas Liquid Chromatograph to analyze the hydrocarbons in the cuticular wax extracts. Multivariate statistics were applied to the chromatographic data to differentiate three sibling species: S. damnosum s.s., S. squamosum and S. yahense. Paired comparisons between the species gave greater than 96% correct classifications in all cases.