Spraguea lophii (Microsporidia) parasite of the teleost fish, Lophius piscatorius from Tunisian coasts: Evidence for an extensive chromosome length polymorphism

Parasitology International

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-74

  Mansour, Lamjed ^a,b   Ben Hassine, Oum Kalthoum ^b   Vivares, Christian P ^c,d   Cornillot, Emmanuel ^e  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Lophius; Microsporidia; Molecular karyotype; Spraguea lophii; Tunisian coasts

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXTENSIVE CHROMOSOME LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; LOPHIUS PISCATORIUS; MICROSPORIDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPRAGUEA LOPHII; TELEOST; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; APANSPOROBLASTINA; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FISHES; KARYOTYPING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TUNISIA;

LOPHIUS; LOPHIUS PISCATORIUS; MICROSPORIDIA; SPRAGUEA; SPRAGUEA LOPHII; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84869869541     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: 18730329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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