Table 2 Comparison of cox1 sequence data of the four dominant species of Culicoides collected in Shangri-La with publically available sequence data
From: Potential vectors of bluetongue virus in high altitude areas of Yunnan Province, China
Species | Morphological identification | Collection site | Best matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
BOLD | GenBank | |||
1 | C. tainanus | Nixi and Jinjiang | C. tainanus (99.47%) [unpublished] | C. maculatus (92.40%) [AB360987.1] |
2 | Culicoides sp. close to C. tainanus | Nixi and Jinjiang | C. tainanus (90.12%) [unpublished] | C. maculatus (89.61%) [AB360986.1] |
3 | Culicoides sp. close to C. obsoletus | Nixi, Jinjiang, Xiaozhongdian | C. obsoletus (92.12%) [unpublished] | C. obsoletus (90.11%) [JF867960.1] |
4 | C. nielamensis | Nixi, Jinjiang, Xiaozhongdian | No matched result | C. minutissimus (84.14%) [KJ767954.1] |