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

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.

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