Determination of nuclear DNA concentration in cells of Myxobolus cerebralis and triactinomyxon spores, the causative agent of whirling disease

Parasitology Research

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 694-699

  El Matbouli, Mansour ^a,b   Holstein, Thomas W ^c   Hoffmann, Rudolf W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FISH; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SPOROGENESIS; TROUT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FISH DISEASES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; OLIGOCHAETA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PROTOZOA; SPORES;

ACTINOMYXIDA; ANIMALIA; MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; SALMONIDAE; TRIACTINOMYXON; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 0031688778     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050472     Document Type: Article

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