Origin of the parasites of an invading species, the Australian cane toad (Bufo marinus): Are the lungworms Australian or American?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4418-4424

  Dubey, Sylvain ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Invasive species; Mitochondrial gene; Nuclear gene; Parasite

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOAD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; BUFO MARINUS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; RHABDITIDA INFECTIONS; RHABDITOIDEA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MYOBATRACHIDAE; RHABDIAS;

EID: 53749101268     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03922.x     Document Type: Article

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