Development of an 18S rRNA gene-targeted PCR-based diagnostic for the blue crab parasite Hematodinium sp.

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-70

  Gruebl, Tomas ^a   Frischer, Marc E ^a   Sheppard, Michael ^a   Neumann, Monika ^a   Maurer, Andreas N ^a   Lee, Richard F ^a  

^a SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

18S ribosomal RNA; Blue crab; Hermatodinium; PCR

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DINOFLAGELLATE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DINOPHYCEAE; HEMATODINIUM; HEMATODINIUM SP.; INVERTEBRATA; OSTREIDAE; PROTOZOA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA PRIMERS; HEMOLYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0037165524     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao049061     Document Type: Article

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