The first finding of myxosporean development from plasmodia to spores in terrestrial mammals: Soricimyxum fegati gen. et sp. n. (Myxozoa) from Sorex araneus (Soricomorpha)

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 159-164

  Prunescu, Carol Constantin ^a   Prunescu, Paula ^a   Pucek, Zdzislaw ^b   Lom, Jiří ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Development; Liver infection; Myxosporea; Myxozoa; Sorex araneus; Soricimyxum fegati; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA; SOREX ARANEUS; SORICIDAE; SORICOMORPHA;

EID: 34748847958     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2007.022     Document Type: Article

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