Phylogenetic characterization of Encephalitozoon romaleae (Microsporidia) from a grasshopper host: Relationship to Encephalitozoon spp. infecting humans

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-195

  Johny, Shajahan ^a   Larson, Troy M ^a   Solter, Leellen F ^b   Edwards, Kevin A ^a   Whitman, Douglas W ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon; Grasshopper; Methionine aminopeptidase 2; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Romalea microptera; rRNA; Tubulin gene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; METHIONYL AMINOPEPTIDASE 2; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON ROMALEAE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; GRASSHOPPERS; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; ROMALEA GUTTATA; ROMALEA MICROPTERA;

EID: 59749092468     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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