The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the monogenean Gyrodactylus thymalli (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea), a parasite of grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 190-194

  Plaisance, Laetitia ^a   Huyse, Tine ^b   Littlewood, D T J ^b   Bakke, Tor A ^a   Bachmann, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ectoparasites; Fish parasites; Gyrodactylosis; Mitogenomics; Sequence annotation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOPARASITE; FISH; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GYRODACTYLUS THYMALLI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLATYHELMINTHS; RNA, TRANSFER; SALMONIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GYRODACTYLUS THYMALLI; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SALMO SALAR; THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 34447271944     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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