Hepatozoon sauritus: A polytopic hemogregarine of three genera and four species of snakes in North Florida, with specific identity verified from genome analysis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 352-358

  Telford Jr , Sam R ^a,b   Ernst, Joel A ^a,c   Clark, A M ^a,c   Butler, J F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b 421 Carr Hall ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 18S;

PARASITOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELAPHE OBSOLETA QUADRIVITTATA; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HEPATOZOON SAURITUS; HEPATOZOON SIRTALIS; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS SIRTALIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FLORIDA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

COLUBER; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR; COLUBER CONSTRICTOR PRIAPUS; ELAPHE; ELAPHE OBSOLETA QUADRIVITTATA; HEPATOZOON; PANTHEROPHIS OBSOLETUS; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS; THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS SACKENII;

EID: 2442554912     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3258     Document Type: Article

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