Diversity and phylogeny of mitochondrial cytochrome B lineages from six morphospecies of avian Haemoproteus (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 889-896

  Hellgren, Olof ^a   Križanauskiene, Asta ^a,b   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a,b   Bensch, Staffan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME;

CYTOCHROME; HOST SPECIFICITY; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; DNA SEQUENCE; FOWL; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BALMORALI; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOPROTEUS LANAI; HAEMOPROTEUS MINUTUS; HAEMOPROTEUS PALLIDUS; HAEMOPROTEUS PAYEVSKYI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; GENETIC VARIATION; HAEMOSPORIDA; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOSPORIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34848893590     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1051R1.1     Document Type: Article

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