Morphological and molecular biological characterization of Pleistophora aegyptiaca sp. nov. infecting the Red Sea fish Saurida tumbil

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 741-752

  Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Bashtar, Abdel Rahman ^a   Morsy, Kareem ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b   Quraishy, Saleh Al ^c   Al Rasheid, Khaled ^c   Abdel Gaber, Rewaida ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOPHORA; PLEISTOPHORA AEGYPTIACA; PLEISTOPHORA ANGUILLARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SAURIDA TUMBIL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FISH DISEASES; GENES, RRNA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INDIAN OCEAN; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOPHORA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

HETEROSPORIS ANGUILLARUM; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; PLEISTOPHORA; SAURIDA TUMBIL;

EID: 84857065056     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2597-8     Document Type: Article

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