Invasive species threat: Parasite phylogenetics reveals patterns and processes of host-switching between non-native and native captive freshwater turtles

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1778-1792

  Verneau, O ^a,e   Palacios, C ^a,e   Platt, T ^b   Alday, M ^a   Billard, E ^a   Allienne, J F ^a   Basso, C ^c   Du Preez, L H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^d NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Mediterraneens   (France)

Author keywords

cytochrome c oxidase I; Emys orbicularis; Mauremys leprosa; Parasitic invasions; phylogenetic systematics; Platyhelminthes; Polystomatidae; Trachemys scripta elegans

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; EMYS ORBICULARIS; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAUREMYS LEPROSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; TURTLE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

EMYS ORBICULARIS; MAUREMYS LEPROSA; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYSTOMATIDAE; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FRESH WATER; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

EID: 84856268049     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000333     Document Type: Article

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