Thelohania parastaci sp. nov. (Microspora: Thelohaniidae), a parasite of the Australian freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor (Decapoda: Parastacidae)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-165

  Moodie, Elizabeth G ^a   Le Jambre, Leo F ^b   Katz, Margaret E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL SPORE; BLOOD CELL; CRAYFISH; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATOPANCREAS; INTESTINE WALL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MICROSPORA; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THELOHANIA CONTEJEANI; THELOHANIA SOLENOPSAE; THELOHANIIDAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; AUSTRALIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

ASTACOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHERAX; CHERAX DESTRUCTOR; FORMICIDAE; PARASTACIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; THELOHANIA CONTEJEANI; THELOHANIA PARASTACI; THELOHANIA SOLENOPSAE; THELOHANIIDAE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0141787085     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0941-3     Document Type: Article

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