Molecular characterization of Fasciola gigantica from Mauritania based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-136

  Amor, Nabil ^a   Farjallah, Sarra ^a   Salem, Mohamed ^b   Lamine, Dia Mamadou ^c   Merella, Paolo ^d   Said, Khaled ^a   Ben Slimane, Badreddine ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b Service de Santé Animale   (Mauritania)

^c Centre National d'Elevage et de Recherche Vétérinaires CNERV   (Mauritania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Africa; COI; Fasciola gigantica; Genetic characterization; ITS; Mauritania; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BURKINA FASO; CATTLE; CLADISTICS; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; GENBANK; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GEOGRAPHY; IRAN; ITS 1 GENE; ITS 2 GENE; KENYA; MAURITANIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RDNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; MAURITANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

BOS; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; OVIS ARIES; PLATYHELMINTHES; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 80052404334     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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