Two additional Hepatozoon species (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) from the southern black racer, Coluber constrictor priapus (Serpentes: Colubridae), in northern Florida

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-143

  Telford Jr , Sam R ^a   Butler, J F ^a,b   Moler, Paul E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

NEW SPECIES; PARASITE; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; HEPATOZOON CONFUSUS; HEPATOZOON PRIAPUS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; SNAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPOROZOITE; SPOROZOON; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

APICOMPLEXA; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; COLUBRIDAE; HEPATOZOIDAE; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON CONFUSUS; HEPATOZOON PRIAPUS; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; COLUBRIDAE; ERYTHROCYTES; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FLORIDA; OOCYSTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 17844394696     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3359     Document Type: Article

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