Molecular phylogeny of the pinworms of mice, rats and rabbits, and its use to develop molecular beacon assays for the detection of pinworms in mice

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Feldman, Sanford H ^a   Bowman, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; RAT; RODENT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; FEMALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ASPICULURIS TETRAPTERA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASSALURUS AMBIGUUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SYPHACIA; SYPHACIA OBVELATA;

EID: 34848840860     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban1007-43     Document Type: Article

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