mitochondrial and wolbachia markers for the sandfly phlebotomus papatasi: little population differentiation between peridomestic sites and gerbil burrows in isfahan province, iran. | in iran, phlebotomus papatasi (scopoli) (diptera: psychodidae) is the main vector of leishmania major yakimoff & schokhor (kinetoplastida: trypanosomatidae), the causative agent of rural zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. this sandfly is abundant both in villages and in the burrows of the main reservoir host, the gerbil rhombomys opimus (licht.) (rodentia: gerbillidae). populations of p. papatasi were sampled from the edges of villages in isfahan province, using cdc miniature light traps in perid ... | 2003 | 14651648 |