Biological and molecular characterization of Besnoitia akodoni n.sp. (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) from the rodent Akodon montensis in Brazil

Parassitologia

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-70

  Dubey, J P ^a   Sreekumar, C ^a   Rosenthal, B M ^a   Lindsay, D S ^b   Grisard, E C ^c   Vitor, R W A ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Akodon montensis; Besnoitia akodoni; Besnoitia jellisoni; Biology; Brazil; Rodent; Sequence comparison; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA AKODONI; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GERBIL; LABORATORY; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; RODENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; FECES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; RAPTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AKODON; AKODON MONTENSIS; ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA AKODONI; BESNOITIA JELLISONI; BOVINAE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COCCIDIA; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATS; COCCIDIOSIS; FECES; GERBILLINAE; MICE; MURIDAE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RAPTORS; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4444356508     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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