Morphological and molecular description of blastocrithidia cyrtomeni sp. nov. (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) associated with cyrtomenus bergi froeschner (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) from Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-307

  Caicedo, Ana Milena ^a   Gallego, Gerardo ^b   Muñoz, Jaime Eduardo ^c   Suárez, Harold ^b   Torres, Andrés Gerardo ^d   Carvajal, Humberto ^a   de Carvajal, Fanny Caro ^a   Posso, Andrés Mauricio ^c   Maslov, Dmitriv ^e   Montoya Lerma, James ^a  

^a Universidad del Valle   (Cambodia)

^b International Center of Tropical Agriculture   (Cambodia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5SrRNA; Blastocrithidia cyrtomeni; Cyrtomenus; sLrRna; SSUrRNA; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCRITHIDIA; BLASTOCRITHIDIA TRIATOMIAE; CYDNIDAE; CYRTOMENUS; CYRTOMENUS BERGI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 79957953637     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300008     Document Type: Article

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