Three new species of Eimeria from Bolivian marsupials

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-284

  Heckscher, S Kimberly ^a   Wickesberg, Brian A ^a   Duszynski, Donald W ^a   Gardner, Scott L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Bolivia; Didelphidae; Eimeria; Marmosops; Marsupial; Micoureus; Monodelphis; New species; Thylamys

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EIMERIA; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; FECES; OPOSSUMS;

APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; EIMERIA; MARMOSOPS; MARMOSOPS DOROTHEA; METATHERIA; MICOUREUS; MICOUREUS CONSTANTIAE; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; THYLAMYS; THYLAMYSVENUSTUS;

EID: 0032990361     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(98)00199-4     Document Type: Article

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