Defining parasite biodiversity at high latitudes of North America: New host and geographic records for Onchocerca cervipedis (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in moose and caribou

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Verocai, Guilherme G ^a   Lejeune, Manigandan ^a   Beckmen, Kimberlee B ^b   Kashivakura, Cyntia K ^a   Veitch, Alasdair M ^c   Popko, Richard A ^c   Fuentealba, Carmen ^a,d   Hoberg, Eric P ^e   Kutz, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alces; Caribou; Legworm; Moose; North America; Onchocerca cervipedis; Rangifer; Subarctic; Vector borne diseases

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST RANGE; LATITUDE; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; METATARSAL BONE; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA CERVIPEDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REINDEER; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BOVIDS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RUMINANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84867899226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-242     Document Type: Article

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