A new rhabditoid nematode species in Asian sciurids, distinct from Strongyloides robustus in North American sciurids

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1476-1486

  Sato, Hiroshi ^a,b   Torii, Harumi ^a,c   Une, Yumi ^a,d   Ooi, Hong Kean ^a,e  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NARA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEMATODE; NEW SPECIES; RNA; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; JAPAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SQUIRREL; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES CALLOSCIUREUS; STRONGYLOIDES ROBUSTUS; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; JAPAN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS; CALLOSCIURUS NOTATUS; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; NEMATODA; RHABDITOIDEA; SCIURIDAE; STRONGYLOIDES; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 38549099322     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1106.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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