Verification of intermediate hosts in the life cycles of microsporidia by small subunit rDNA sequencing

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 290-292

  Vossbrinck, Charles R ^a   Andreadis, Theodore G ^a   Debrunner Vossbrinck, Bettina A ^a  

^a The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Disease; Insect; Life cycle microsporidia; Pathogen; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

INFECTIVITY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITISM; RIBOSOMAL DNA;

INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORIDIA; RDNA SEQUENCING;

ACANTHOCYCLOPS VERNALIS; AEDES CANTATOR; AMBLYOSPORA CONNECTICUS; AMBLYOSPORIDAE; COPEPODA; CULICIDAE; CYCLOPIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032079068     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb04538.x     Document Type: Article

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