Fish-isolated Naegleria strains and their phylogeny inferred from ITS and SSU rDNA sequences

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 172-180

  Dyková, Iva ^a,b   Pecková, Hana ^a   Fiala, Ivan ^a,b   Dvořáková, Helena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fish isolated strains; ITS; Naegleria; Phylogeny; SSU rDNA; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

NAEGLERIA;

EID: 33750068626     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.023     Document Type: Article

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