Phylogenetic congruence of Sarcocystis neurona Dubey et al., 1991 (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) in the United States based on sequence analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 191-202

  Elsheikha, Hany M ^a   Murphy, Alice J ^a   Mansfield, Linda S ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COCCIDIOSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; COCCIDIA; DIDELPHIDAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 23744512366     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-005-3163-5     Document Type: Article

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