Differences in the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS-2) of eight species of gastrointestinal nematodes of ruminants

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-435

  Heise, Miriam ^a   Epe, Christian ^a   Schnieder, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOVIDS; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODE; NEMATODIRUS; NEMATODIRUS FILICOLLIS; NEMATODIRUS HELVETIANUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PARASITE EXAMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BOVIDAE; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA; FILICOLLIS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; NEMATODIRUS FILICOLLIS; NEMATODIRUS HELVETIANUS; ONCOPHORA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 0033034056     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285774     Document Type: Article

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