Phylogenetic analysis of Cystoisospora species at the rRNA ITS1 locus and development of a PCR-RFLP assay

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 592-595

  Samarasinghe, Bimba ^a   Johnson, Johanna ^a   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

C. belli; C. felis; C. ohioensis; C. rivolta; C. suis; Cystoisospora spp.; Internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1); Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CYSTOISOSPORA; CYSTOISOSPORA BELLI; CYSTOISOSPORA FELIS; CYSTOISOSPORA OHIOENSIS; CYSTOISOSPORA RIVOLTA; DNA EXTRACTION; EIMERIA; EVOLUTION; NEOSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOGS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE;

COCCIDIA; CYSTOISOSPORA; CYSTOISOSPORA OHIOENSIS; CYSTOISOSPORA RIVOLTA; EIMERIA; EIMERIIDAE; NEOSPORA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 40649119254     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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