Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic distinction of six genera of pathogenic scuticociliates (protozoa, ciliophora) inferred from small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 246-256

  Gao, Feng ^a   Strüder Kypke, Michaela ^b   Yi, Zhenzhen ^a   Miao, Miao ^a   Al Farraj, Saleh A ^c   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANCISTRUM CRASSUM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BOVERIA SUBCYLINDRICA; CILIATE; COHNILEMBUS VERMINUS; CYCLIDIUM PLOUNEOURI; CYCLIDIUM PORCATUM; GENE SEQUENCE; METANOPHRYS SINENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAURONEMA LONGUM; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLEURONEMATIDA; PORPOSTOMA NOTATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THIGMOTRICHIDA; URONEMELLA PARAFILIFICUM;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CHINA; CILIOPHORA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANCISTRUM; ANIMALIA; BOVERIA; CILIOPHORA; COHNILEMBIDAE; COHNILEMBUS VERMINUS; CYCLIDIUM PLOUNEOURI; CYCLIDIUM PORCATUM; METANOPHRYS; METANOPHRYS SINENSIS; PARAURONEMA; PARAURONEMA LONGUM; PHILASTERIDA; PHILASTERIDAE; PLEURONEMATIDA; PORPOSTOMA; PROTOZOA; SCUTICOCILIATIA; THIGMOTRICHIDA;

EID: 84855686252     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.028464-0     Document Type: Article

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