A new species of Sphaeromyxa (Myxosporea: Sphaeromyxina: Sphaeromyxidae) in devil firefish, Pterois miles (Scorpaenidae), from the northern Red Sea: Morphology, ultrastructure, and phylogeny

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1434-1442

  Diamant, A ^a   Whipps, C M ^a,b   Kent, M L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEW SPECIES; PARASITE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; ISRAEL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOON; PTEROIS MILES; SEA; SPHAEROMYXA ZAHARONI; SPOROGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GALLBLADDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; WORLD;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GALLBLADDER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 14244261985     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-336R     Document Type: Article

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