Cryptosporidium fayeri: Diversity within the GP60 locus of isolates from different marsupial hosts

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 219-223

  Power, Michelle L ^a   Cheung Kwok Sang, Cristel ^a   Slade, Martin ^a   Williamson, Sally ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Cryptosporidium fayeri; GP60; Marsupials; Sporozoite surface antigens

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 60; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FAYERI; GENE LOCUS; HOST RANGE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MARSUPIALIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; METATHERIA;

EID: 60049088248     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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