Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the populations of great gerbils, Rhombomys opimus, the main reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 119, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 165-171

  Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Rassi, Yavar ^a   Tajedin, Leila ^a   Abai, Mohammad Reza ^a   Akhavan, Amir Ahmad ^a   Enayati, Ahmadali ^b   Mohtarami, Fatemeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross hybridization; Great gerbil; Leishmaniasis; MtDNA; Reservoir; Rhombomys opimus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; CYTOCHROME B GENE; DISEASE CARRIER; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GERBIL; HAPLOTYPE; IRAN; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS SARGADENSIS; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS SODALIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SUBSPECIES;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES B; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GERBILLINAE; IRAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79960601101     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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