The life cycle of Ceratomyxa shasta, a myxosporean parasite of salmonids, requires a freshwater polychaete as an alternate host

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 859-868

  Bartholomew, J L ^a   Whipple, M J ^a   Stevens, D G ^a   Fryer, J L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CERATOMYXA SHASTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMIS; FISH; HOST; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYCHAETA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; POLYCHAETA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPORES;

EID: 0030856281     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284281     Document Type: Article

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