Genetic barcoding of marine leeches (Ozobranchus spp.) from Florida sea turtles and their divergence in host specificity

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-278

  Mcgowin, Audrey E ^a   Truong, Triet M ^a   Corbett, Adrian M ^b   Bagley, Dean A ^c,d   Ehrhart, Llewellyn M ^c,d   Bresette, Michael J ^d   Weege, Steven T ^d   Clark, Dave ^d  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Inwater Research Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocoon; DNA barcoding; Fibropapillomatosis associated turtle herpesvirus; New host record; Ozobranchus branchiatus; Ozobranchus margoi; Sea turtle leech; Two species infection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; LEECH; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLORIDA; HOST SPECIFICITY; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TURTLES;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; FIBROPAPILLOMA-ASSOCIATED TURTLE HERPESVIRUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HIRUDINIDA; OZOBRANCHUS; OZOBRANCHUS BRANCHIATUS; OZOBRANCHUS MARGOI; PLACOBDELLA ORNATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79751473206     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02946.x     Document Type: Article

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