Molecular identification of schistosome intermediate hosts: Case studies of Bulinus forskalii group species (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) from Central and East Africa

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 215-240

  Jones, C S ^a   Noble, L R ^a   Ouma, J ^b   Kariuki, H C ^b   Mimpfoundi, R ^d   Brown, D S ^c   Rollinson, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Arbitrary primers; COI; Cytochrome oxidase subunit I; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphology; Morphometrics; Phylogenetics; Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA; RAPDs

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE I; DISEASE MODEL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR STRUCTURE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SNAIL;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; BULINUS FORSKALII; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PLANORBIDAE; SCHISTOSOMA; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032850161     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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