Species markers for equine strongyles detected in intergenic rDNA by PCR-RFLP

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 371-378

  Gasser, R B ^a,b   Stevenson, L A ^a   Chilton, N B ^a   Nansen, P ^b   Bucknell, D G ^a   Beveridge, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genetic markers; Horse; Intergenic region; Internal transcribed spacers; Parasitic nematodes; PCR RFLP; Ribosomal DNA; Species identification

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRONGYLOIDEA;

CYATHOSTOMINAE; CYATHOSTOMUM CATINATUM; CYLICOCYCLUS INSIGNIS; CYLICOSTEPHANUS CALICATUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGODONTUS ROBUSTUS; POTERIOSTOMUM IMPARIDENTATUM; POTERIOSTOMUM RATZII; STRONGYLES; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLUS EDENTATUS; STRONGYLUS EQUINUS; STRONGYLUS VULGARIS; TRIODONTOPHORUS SERRATUS;

EID: 0030272384     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1996.0050     Document Type: Article

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