Real-time PCR investigation of parasite ecology: In situ determination of oyster parasite Perkinsus marinus transmission dynamics in lower Chesapeake Bay

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 827-842

  Audemard, C ^a   Ragone Calvo, L M ^b   Paynter, K T ^c   Reece, K S ^a   Burreson, E M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Crassostrea virginica; Environment; Host parasite relationships; Perkinsus marinus; Real time PCR; SYBR Green I; Transmission dynamics; Waterborne

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERKINSUS MARINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; UNITED STATES; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CRASSOSTREA; HAPLOSPORIDA; INCIDENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIRGINIA;

CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; OSTREIDAE; PERKINSUS MARINUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33646735151     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006009851     Document Type: Article

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