Phylogenetic relationships of Sarcocystis neurona of horses and opossums to other cyst-forming coccidia deduced from SSU rRNA gene sequences

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 345-357

  Elsheikha, Hany M ^a   Lacher, David W ^a   Mansfield, Linda S ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b B43 Food Safety and Toxicology Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BESNOITIA; COCCIDIA; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HORSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYALOKLOSSIA; ISOSPORA; NEOSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICHIGAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BESNOITIA; COCCIDIA; DIDELPHIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; FRENKELIA; HYALOKLOSSIA; ISOSPORA; NEOSPORA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS DISPERSA; SARCOCYSTIS LACERTAE; SARCOCYSTIS MURIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SARCOCYSTIS RODENTIFELIS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 27644570089     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1396-5     Document Type: Article

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