Litomosa chiropterorum Ortlepp, 1932 (nematoda: Filarioidea) from a South African miniopterid: redescription, Wolbachia screening and phylogenetic relationships with litomosoides

Parasite

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-50

  Junker, K ^a   Barbuto, M ^b   Casiraghi, M ^b   Martin, C ^c   Uni, S ^d   Boomker, J ^a   Bain, O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; Litomosa; Microchiroptera; Morphology; Utomosoides; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

FILARIA; FILARIOIDEA; LITOMOSA; LITOMOSOIDES; MICROCHIROPTERA; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE GENUS); MINIOPTERUS; MINIOPTERUS NATALENSIS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; RHINOLOPHUS; RODENTIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 62949130739     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2009161043     Document Type: Article

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