Specific identification of Egyptian Biomphalaria species and possible hybrids using the polymerase chain reaction based on nuclear and mitochondrial loci

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-25

  Lotfy, Wael M ^a,b   DeJong, Randall J ^a   Black, Brandee S ^a   Loker, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Biomphalaria alexandrina; Biomphalaria glabrata; Egypt; Hybridization; Polymerase chain reaction; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMPHALARIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHIMERA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA ALEXANDRINA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 11844306567     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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