Molecular identification of Probolocoryphe uca (Sarkisian, 1957; Digenea: Microphallidae) from Kuwait Bay using ITS1 and ITS2 sequences

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1189-1195

  Al Kandari, Wafa Y ^a   Al Bustan, Suzanne A ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; KUWAIT; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBOLOCORYPHE UCA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL; SPOROCYST; TREMATODE; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GASTROPODA; KUWAIT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREMATODA;

AVES; CERITHIDEA CINGULATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; MICROPHALLIDAE; NANOSESARMA MINUTUM; PROBOLOCORPHE UCA;

EID: 77953286171     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1778-1     Document Type: Article

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