Characterization of sarcocystis from four species of hawks from Georgia, USA

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 256-259

  Yabsley, Michael J ^a   Ellis, Angela E ^a   Stallknecht, David E ^a   Howerth, Elizabeth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTOZOAN; RAPTOR; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAWK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGENY; SARCOCYSTIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

ACCIPITER; ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; BUTEO; RAPTORES; RODENTIA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEORGIA; HAWKS; INTESTINES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 64549104562     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1567.1     Document Type: Article

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