Revealing cryptic parasite diversity in a definitive host: Echinostomes in muskrats

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1148-1155

  Detwiler, Jillian T ^a   Zajac, Anne M ^b   Minchella, Dennis J ^c   Belden, Lisa K ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; FLATWORM; HOST SPECIFICITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE HISTORY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSKRAT; NONHUMAN; NOTOCOTYLUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; PARASITE; PREVALENCE; QUINQUESERIALIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREMATODIASIS; WARDIUS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINES; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RODENT DISEASES; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; VIRGINIA;

ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; NOTOCOTYLUS; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; QUINQUESERIALIS; TREMATODA; WARDIUS;

EID: 84865545546     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3117.1     Document Type: Article

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