Molecular methods clarify morphometric variation in triactinomyxon spores (Myxozoa) released from different oligochaete hosts

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Hallett, Sascha L ^a   Atkinson, Stephen D ^a   Erséus, Christer ^b   El Matbouli, Mansour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN SPORE; PROTOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

ACTINOMYXIDA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; MYXOZOA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PROTOZOA; TRIACTINOMYXON; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 0842287719     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SYPA.0000010682.90311.91     Document Type: Article

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