A genetically diverse but distinct North American population of Sarcocystis neurona includes an overrepresented clone described by 12 microsatellite alleles

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 352-360

  Asmundsson, Ingrid M ^a   Dubey, J P ^a   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidia; Didelphis; Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis; Microsatellites; Population genetics; Population structure; Sarcocystis falcatula; Sarcocystis neurona; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAXONOMY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIDELPHIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HORSES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORTH AMERICA; OTTERS; PHYLOGENY; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

COCCIDIA; DIDELPHIDAE; ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS; EQUIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33745355692     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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