Morphological and molecular taxonomy of a new species of fundulotrema and comments on gyrodactylus stephanus (monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from fundulus heteroclitus (actinopterygii: Cyprinodontiformes) in Nova Scotia, Canada

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 846-849

  King, Stanley D ^a   Cone, David K ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA; FRESH WATER; HELMINTH DNA;

CYPRINID; ECTOPARASITE; FLATWORM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HABITAT USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FUNDULOTREMA PORTERENSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY; TREMATODE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TREMATODIASIS;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ACTINOPTERYGII; CYPRINODONTIDAE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FUNDULOTREMA; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; GYRODACTYLIDAE; GYRODACTYLUS STEPHANUS; GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI; MONOGENEA;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; FUNDULIDAE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NOVA SCOTIA; PLATYHELMINTHS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 73949127188     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1901.1     Document Type: Article

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