Morphological and genetical description of Loma psittaca sp. n. isolated from the Amazonian fish species Colomesus psittacus

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1261-1271

  Casal, Graça ^a,b,c   Matos, Edilson ^d   Teles Grilo, M Leonor ^a   Azevedo, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES IUCS   (Portugal)

^d Federal Rural University of Amazonia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VACUOLE; COLOMESUS PSITTACUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LOMA; LOMA PSITTACA; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPOROGENESIS; TAXONOMY; TELEOST; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; GENES, RRNA; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LOMA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

COLOMESUS PSITTACUS; ICHTHYOSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORIDIA; PSEUDOLOMA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 70349606072     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1547-1     Document Type: Article

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