Literature
Differentiation of Culicoides species using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Mathieu, B., A. Perrin, T. Baldet, J.-C. Delecolle, E. Albina and C. Cêtre-Sossah (2007). "Molecular identification of western European species of Obsoletus complex (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) by an internal transcribed spacer-1 rDNA multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay." Journal of Medical Entomology 44(6): 1019-1025. [abstract and full text (subscription required)]
Nolan, D. V., S. Carpenter, J. Barber, P. S. Mellor, J. F. Dallas, J. A. Mordue and S. B. Piertney (2007). "Rapid diagnostic PCR assays for members of the Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides pulicaris species complexes, implicated vectors of bluetongue virus in Europe." Veterinary Microbiology 124(1-2): 82-94. [abstract and full text (subscription required)]
Pagès, N. and V. Sarto I Monteys (2005). "Differentiation of Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides scoticus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I." Journal of Medical Entomology 42(6): 1026-1034. [abstract and full text (subscription required)]
Molecular studies of Culicoides phylogeny
Perrin, A., C. Cêtre-Sossah, B. Mathieu, T. Baldet, J.-C. Delecolle and E. Albina (2006). "Phylogenetic analysis of Culicoides species from France based on nuclear ITS1-rDNA sequences." Medical and Veterinary Entomology 20(2): 219-228. [abstract and full text (subscription required)]
