V4 region of small subunit rDNA indicates polyphyly of the Fellodistomidae (Digenea) which is supported by morphology and life-cycle data

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-92

  Hall, Kathryn A ^a   Cribb, Thomas H ^a   Barker, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREMATODA;

ASPIDOGASTREA; BIVALVIA; BIVESICULIDAE; BRACHYLAIMIDAE; BUCEPHALIDAE; COMPLEXOBURSA; COMPLEXOBURSA SP.; COOMERA BRAYI; FAUSTULIDAE; FELLODISTOMIDAE; FELLODISTOMUM AGNOTUM; FELLODISTOMUM FELLIS; GORGODERIDAE; GYMNOPHALLIDAE; OPECOELIDAE; PROCTOECES MACULATUS; TANDANICOLIDAE; ZOOGONIDAE;

EID: 0033152493     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006113721899     Document Type: Article

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