Phylogenetic analysis of Mexican Babesia bovis isolates using msa and ssrRNA gene sequences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 121-125

  Genis, Alma D ^a   Mosqueda, Juan J ^b   Borgonio, Verónica M ^a   Falcón, Alfonso ^b   Alvarez, Antonio ^b   Camacho, Minerva ^a   De Lourdes Muñoz, Maria ^c   Figueroa, Julio V ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; msa genes; ssrRNA gene, phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPLICON; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEXICO; MSA1 GENE; MSA2 GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BABESIA BOVIS; BOS;

EID: 57849155940     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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