Morphological and Phylogenetic Studies of Marine Myxobolus spp. from Mullet in Ichkeul Lake, Tunisia

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 463-470

  Bahri, Sihem ^a   Andree, Karl B ^b   Hedrick, Ronald P ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Host specificity; Marine Myxobolus spp.; Morphology; Mullet; Myxozoa; Phylogeny; Small subunit ribosomal DNA; Taxonomy; Tissue tropism

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AFRICA; BIZERTE; ICHKEUL LAKE; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; LIZA; LIZA RAMADA; MUGIL; MUGIL CEPHALUS; MYXOBOLUS; MYXOBOLUS BIZERTI; MYXOBOLUS EPISQUAMALIS; MYXOBOLUS EXIGUUS; MYXOBOLUS ICHKEULENSIS; MYXOBOLUS MUELLERI; MYXOBOLUS SPINACURVATURA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 0347596950     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00272.x     Document Type: Article

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