Survey of actinosporean types (Myxozoa) belonging to seven collective groups found in a freshwater salmon farm in Northern Scotland

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 189-210

  Özer, Ahmet ^a   Wootten, Rodney ^a   Shinn, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinospore; Aurantiactinomyxon; Echinactinomyxon; Myxozoa; Neoactinomyxum; Raabeia; Siedleckiella; Synactinomyxon; Triactinomyxon

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYXIDA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; AURANTIACTINOMYXON; ECHINACTINOMYXON; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; LUMBRICULIDAE; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; MYXOZOA; NAIDIDAE; NEOACTINOMYXUM; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PROTOZOA; RAABEIA; SYNACTINOMYXON; TRIACTINOMYXON; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0036395734     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.036     Document Type: Article

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