Discrimination between two Perkinsus spp. isolated from the softshell clam, Mya arenaria, by sequence analysis of two internal transcribed spacer regions and the 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene

Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 363-368

  Kotob, S I ^a   McLaughlin, S M ^b   Van Berkum, P ^c   Faisal, M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Phylogenetic relationships; Polymerase chain reaction; Ribosomal RNA loci

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLAM; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BIVALVIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; MYA ARENARIA; PERKINSUS; PERKINSUS MARINUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032885229     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099004801     Document Type: Article

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