Six new species of coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from East African chameleons (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 373-379

  Modrý, David ^a,b   Šlapeta, Jan R ^a   Koudela, Břetislav ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIZARD; NEW SPECIES;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; APICOMPLEXA; CHAMAELEO DILEPIS; CHAMAELEO GRACILIS; CHAMAELEO JACKSONII; CHAMAELEO MELLERI; CHAMAELEONIDAE; COCCIDIA; DILEPIS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA BOHEMII; EIMERIA TILBURYI; EIMERIIDAE; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORA NECASI; ISOSPORA WILDI; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0034127518     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0373:SNSOCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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