Cryptosporidium is more closely related to the gregarines than to coccidia as shown by phylogenetic analysis of apicomplexan parasites inferred using small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 899-904

  Carreno, Ramon A ^a   Martin, Donald S ^a,b   Barta, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADELEIDAE; APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GREGARINA NIPHANDRODES; GREGARINIA; MONOCYSTIS AGILIS; NEOGREGARINORIDA; OPHRIOCYSTIS ELEKTROSCIRRHA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032882626     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050655     Document Type: Article

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