Specific primers for the detection of the black-yeast fungus associated with lethargic crab disease (LCD)

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-75

  Pie, Marcio R ^a   Boeger, Walter A ^a   Patella, Luciana ^a   Vicente, Vânia A ^a   Ribeiro, Raphael O ^a   Ostrensky, Antonio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Exophiala cancerae; Lethargic crab disease

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

CRAB; DETECTION METHOD; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MANGROVE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; YEAST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; EXOPHIALA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYURA; DNA PRIMERS; EXOPHIALA;

ATLANTIC COAST [BRAZIL]; ATLANTIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; BRAZIL;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EXOPHIALA; FUNGI; GECARCINIDAE; OCYPODIDAE; UCIDES CORDATUS;

EID: 79956319036     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02312     Document Type: Article

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