Using the Developmental Gene Bicoid to Identify Species of Forensically Important Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
Table 1
Intraspecific distances of the partial coding sequences and intron 2 of the bcd gene*.
Species (abbreviation)
Coding sequence
Intron 2
(1) Triceratopyga calliphoroides (Cl)
0.003024
0.000000
14*
(2) Aldrichina grahami (Gr)
0.000000
0.000000
7
(3) Calliphora lata (La)
0.001335
0.000000
10
(4) Calliphora vicina (Vi)
0.001661
0.000000
11
(5) Chrysomya megacephala (Mg)
0.000000
0.000000
3
(6) Chrysomya pinguis (Pi)
0.008341
0.055927
7*
(7) Phormia regina (Re)
0.000600
0.000000
8
(8) Lucilia ampullacea (Am)
0.008057
0.017557
3
(9) Lucilia caesar (Ca)
0.001029
0.000000
8
(10) Lucilia illustris (Il)
0.000000
0.000000
22
(11) Hemipyrella ligurriens (Li)
0.000000
0.000000
2
(12) Lucilia sericata (Se)
0.001468
0.013168
8*
Coding sequences = 3′ of exon 2 and 5′ half of exon 3 of bcd. : sample size. The number of the sequences deposited in GenBank is greater than the sample size.
