Trypanosomes in a declining species of threatened Australian marsupial, the brush-tailed bettong Bettongia penicillata (Marsupialia: Potoroidae)

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1329-1335

  Smith, A ^a   Clark, P ^a   Averis, S ^a   Lymbery, A J ^a   Wayne, A F ^b   Morris, K D ^b   Thompson, R A ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bettongia penicillata; Characterization; Parasite; Population decline; Trypanosome; Wildlife; Woylie

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARSUPIAL; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POTOROIDAE; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BETTONGIA PENICILLATA; METATHERIA; POTOROIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA SP.;

EID: 51949095357     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004824     Document Type: Article

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