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A portable allozyme electrophoresis kit used to identify members of the Simulium damnosum Theobald complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. C. Thomson ,
J. B. Davies  and
M. D. Wilson
M. C. Thomson
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Entomology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
J. B. Davies
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Entomology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
M. D. Wilson
Affiliation:
Onchocerciasis Control Programme, B.P. 549, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Abstract

A cheap power pack that could be run off a 12-V car battery was constructed using a 12–250–V DC-DC converter. The power pack is small and light and can be used to run a Helena cellulose acetate electrophoresis system away from a mains electricity supply. The system was used sucessfully to identify adults of the Simulium damnosum Theobald complex in a field laboratory in northern Sierra Leone.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , November 1989 , pp. 685 - 691
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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