Molecular characterization of gregarines from sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and description of Psychodiella n. g. (apicomplexa: Gregarinida)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 583-588

  VotÝpka, Jan ^a,b   Lantová, Lucie ^a   Ghosh, Kashinath ^c   Braig, Henk ^d   Volf, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessory glands; Ascogregarina; Lutzomyia; Neogregarines; Parasite; Phlebotomus; SSU rDNA phylogeny

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; NEW GENUS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTOZOAN; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHODIDAE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHODIDAE; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APICOMPLEXA; ASCOGREGARINA; DIPTERA; GREGARINIA; LECUDINIDAE; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 70350501152     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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