Genetic Heterogeneity in Internal Transcribed Spacer Genes of Balantidium coli (Litostomatea, Ciliophora)

Protist

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 774-794

  Ponce Gordo, Francisco ^a   Fonseca Salamanca, Flery ^a,b   Martínez Díaz, Rafael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^c AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balantidium coli; Balantidium struthionis; Balantidium suis; Genetic characterization; Genetic polymorphism; ITS secondary structure.

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; FECES; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GORILLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTRICH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUTHIONIFORMES; SWINE;

AVES; BALANTIDIUM; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CILIOPHORA; ISOTRICHA; LACRYMARIA (CILIATE); LITOSTOMATEA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SPATHIDIUM; STRUTHIONIFORMES; SUIDAE; TRICHOSTOMATIA; TROGLODYTELLA;

EID: 81155160931     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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