Morphology and small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence of Henneguya suprabranchiae (Myxozoa), a parasite of the catfish Clarias gariepinus (Clariidae) from the River Nile, Egypt

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1423-1435

  Morsy, Kareem ^a   Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Bashtar, Abdel Rahman ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b   Al Quraishy, Saleh ^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

DNA 18S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CAPSULOGENISIS; CATFISH; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EGYPT; GENBANK; GILL; HENNEGUYA; HENNEGUYA EXILIS; HENNEGUYA SUPRABRANCHIAE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYALINE CARTILAGE; MEMBRANE; MYXOZOA; MYXOZOAN SPORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALVOGENESIS;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CATFISHES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EGYPT; FISH DISEASES; GENES, RRNA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOZOA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CLARIIDAE; HENNEGUYA; HENNEGUYA EXILIS; HENNEGUYA SP.; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA;

EID: 84868224880     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-2976-9     Document Type: Article

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