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Table 1 Average Ct values of various body parts in parous Culicoides females collected in Morocco (6 out of 12 regions) from 2018 to 2021

From: First molecular evidence of potential Culicoides vectors implicated in bluetongue virus transmission in Morocco

Species

RT-qPCR mean Ct values

Head

Thorax

Abdomen

C. imicola

24.3

24.1

24.6

C. paolae

26.3

26.8

26.5

C. newsteadi

27.2

26.9

27.5

Culicoides spp.

25.8

25.2

25.6

C. circumscriptus

26.6

26.1

26.4

  1. Ct Cycle threshold