Mitochondrial DNA sequence and gene order of the Sri Lankan Schistosoma nasale is affiliated to the African/Indian group

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 460-464

  Sato, Yukita ^a   Le, Thanh Hoa ^b   Hiraike, Reina ^a   Yukawa, Masayoshi ^a   Sakai, Takeo ^c   Rajapakse, R P V Jayanthe ^d   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^e  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^e KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affiliated; Gene order; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Re arrangement; Schistosoma nasale; Schistosomiasis; Taxonomic position

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSPORT; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA INCOGNITUM; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; SCHISTOSOMA NASALE; SCHISTOSOMA SPINADALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SRI LANKA; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SCHISTOSOMA; SRI LANKA;

FASCIOLA HEPATICA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA INCOGNITUM; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA NASALE; SCHISTOSOMA SPINDALE;

EID: 53049093571     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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