Coccidian oöcysts as type-specimens: Long-term storage in aqueous potassium dichromate solution preserves DNA

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-76

  Williams, R B ^a   Thebo, P ^b   Marshall, R N ^c   Marshall, J A ^c  

^a Institute for Animal Health   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; FIXATIVE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EIMERIA; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; PROTOZOAN SPORE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA; FECES; FIXATIVES; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TIME FACTORS;

APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIIDAE; EIMERIORINA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 77952004446     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-010-9234-2     Document Type: Article

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