Evidence for a recent population bottleneck in an Apicomplexan parasite of caribou and reindeer, Besnoitia tarandi

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1605-1613

  Madubata, Chioma ^a,d   Dunams Morel, Detiger B ^a   Elkin, Brett ^b   Oksanen, Antti ^c   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Besnoitia; Bottleneck; Caribou; Reindeer; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA TARANDI; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASTID GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINDEER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CANADA; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; REINDEER; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SKIN;

BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIA TARANDI; COCCIDIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84865829722     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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