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[Current approach to the study of cytotaxonomy of vectors]
1Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Antwerpen, Belgique.
Annales De La Societe Belge De Medecine Tropicale
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
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.