Ultrastructural developmental cycle of Haplosporidium montforti (Phylum haplosporidia) in its farmed abalone host, Haliotis tuberculata (Gastropoda)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-142

  Azevedo, Carlos ^a,b   Casal, Graça ^a,b,c   Montes, Jaime ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c High Institute of Health Sciences   (Portugal)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓNS MARIÑAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; GASTROPOD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MATURATION; PROTOZOAN; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABALONE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HAPLOSPORIDIA; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; GASTROPODA; HAPLOSPORIDA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

GASTROPODA; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS TUBERCULATA; HAPLOSPORIDIA; HAPLOSPORIDIUM;

EID: 40949106919     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1177.1     Document Type: Article

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