The role of alternate hosts in the ecology and life history of Hematodinium sp., a parasitic dinoflagellate of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-84

  Pagenkopp Lohan, Katrina M ^a   Reece, Kimberly S ^a   Miller, Terrence L ^a,b   Wheeler, Kersten N ^a   Small, Hamish J ^a   Shields, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA;

CRAB; DINOFLAGELLATE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LIFE HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLUE CRAB; CRUSTACEA; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATODINIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RANGE; LIFE HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALS; BAYS; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRUSTACEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FISHERIES; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRGINIA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); DELMARVA PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DINOPHYCEAE; HEMATODINIUM; HEMATODINIUM SP.;

EID: 84857854218     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2854.1     Document Type: Article

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