Abstract
'Current approach to the study of cytotaxonomy of vectors': In order to avoid the slowness of the classical analysis of polytene chromosomes in insect vectors of diseases, a programme of image analysis on computer has been perfected. In its actual form, it allows to obtain a real straight image of the chromosome, the curve of DNA optic density for all the bands and the possibility to bring all the obtained images to a same standard length. The whole of the operations takes between 3 and 5 minutes per chromosome. Then, the author describes a way of approach to complete this programme in order to obtain a comparison of the analysed chromosomes allowing the automatic location of inversions
| Original language | French |
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| Journal | Annales de la Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | Suppl.1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 219-224 |
| ISSN | 0365-6527 |
| Publication status | Published - 1991 |
Keywords
- B780-tropical-medicine
- Entomology
- Vectors
- Cytotaxonomy
- Chromosomes
- DNA
- Photographs