Molecular data implicate bryozoans as hosts for PKX (Phylum Myxozoa) and identify a clade of bryozoan parasites within the Myxozoa

Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 555-561

  Anderson, C L ^a,c   Canning, E U ^a   Okamura, B ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Myxozoan evolution; New bryozoan hosts; PKX; Salmonid PKD

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRYOZOA; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FISH; KIDNEY DISEASE; MYXOZOA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRYOZOA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FISH DISEASES; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032748686     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118209900520X     Document Type: Article

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