title: [Current approach to the study of cytotaxonomy of vectors].
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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Antwerpen, Belgique.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Elsen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000737:chemistry*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics
vernacular_title: Nouvelle approche pour l'étude de la cytotaxinomie des vecteurs.