Comparison of vertebrate cytochrome b and prepronociceptin for blood meal analyses in Culicoides.
To date, studies on host preferences and blood meal identification have been conducted for Culicoides species using molecular-based methods such as PCR techniques knowall.blog to amplify only a fragment from universal vertebrate mitochondrial genes such as Cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (COI) or Cytochrome b (Cyt b).The vertebrate prepronociceptin