Phylogenetic relationships among Eimeria spp. (Apicomplexa, Eimeriidae) infecting rabbits: Evolutionary significance of biological and morphological features

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-452

  Kvicerova J ^a,b   Pakandl, M ^a   Hypsa V ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Coccidia; Eimeria; Host specificity; Oocysts; Oryctolagus; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CELL STRUCTURE; COCCIDIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EIMERIA; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 43249085272     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007004106     Document Type: Article

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