Inter- and intra-strain variation and PCR detection of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS-1) sequences of Australian isolates of Eimeria species from chickens

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 33-50

  Lew, A E ^a   Anderson, G R ^a   Minchin, C M ^a   Jeston, P J ^a   Jorgensen, W K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eimeria; Internal transcribed spacer 1; PCR; Phylogeny; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA PRAECOX; EIMERIA TENELLA; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACERVULINA; EIMERIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0037469973     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00393-X     Document Type: Article

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