A new gyrodactylid (Monogenea) genus on gray bichir, polypterus senegalus (Polypteridae) from senegal (West Africa)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-560

  Přikrylová, Iva ^a   Matějusová, Iveta ^a,b   Musilová, Naďa ^a   Gelnar, Milan ^a   Harris, Philip D ^a,c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

EEL; FLATWORM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; VIVIPARITY;

ARTICLE; DIPLOGYRODACTYLUS MARTINI; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOPARASITE; FISH; GYRODACTYLID; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYPTERUS SENEGALUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GILL; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENEGAL; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

SENEGAL;

GYRODACTYLIDAE; MONOGENEA; POLYPTERIDAE; POLYPTERUS SENEGALUS; POLYPTERUS SENEGALUS SENEGALUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GILLS; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENEGAL; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 71449127373     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1652.1     Document Type: Article

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