Morphological and genetic differences among actinosporean stages of fish-parasitic myxosporeans (Myxozoa): Difficulties of species identification

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-114

  Eszterbauer, Edit ^a   Marton, Szilvia ^a   Rácz, Orsolya Z ^a   Letenyei, Márta ^a   Molnár, Kálmán ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; FISH DISEASE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; GOLDFISH; HUNGARY; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN SPORE; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; FISH DISEASES; FISHERIES; GOLDFISH; HUNGARY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

ACTINOMYXIDA; AURANTIACTINOMYXON; BRANCHIURA SOWERBYI; CARASSIUS AURATUS; CARASSIUS AURATUS AURATUS; GUYENOTIA; MYXOBOLUS CULTUS; MYXOBOLUS SP.; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA; RAABEIA; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SPHAEROSPORA; THELOHANELLUS HOVORKAI; TRIACTINOMYXON;

EID: 33750320099     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-006-9041-y     Document Type: Article

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