Hepatozoon polytopis n. sp. parasitic in two genera and species of colubrid snakes in southern Florida

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 144-147

  Telford Jr , Sam R ^a   Butler, J F ^a,b   Telford, Randy S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

NEW SPECIES; PARASITE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAPLOTYPE; HEPATOZOON MANSONI; HEPATOZOON POLYTOPIS; HEPATOZOON PUNCTATUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITOSIS; PROTOZOON; SNAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAXONOMY; THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS SACKENII; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PALM BEACH COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; COLUBRIDAE; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON POLYTOPIS; THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS SACKENII;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; COLUBRIDAE; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FLORIDA; HAPLOTYPES; OOCYSTS; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 17844398739     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3358     Document Type: Article

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