A new species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from fishes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-101

  Curran, Stephen S ^a   Tkach, Vasyl V ^b,c   Overstreet, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; FISH; FLATWORM; GENE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRION; NEW SPECIES; SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BAIRDIELLA CHRYSOURA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUCINOSTOMUS ARGENTEUS; FISH; FUNDULUS GRANDIS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; FUNDULUS SIMILIS; GULF OF MEXICO; HOMALOMETRON MANTERI; HOMALOMETRON PALLIDUM; HOMALOMETRON PALMERI; HOMALOMETRON PSEUDOPALLIDUM; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POGONIAS CROMIS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS; SPINE; SYMPATRY; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FISH DISEASES; FUNDULIDAE; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; NEW ENGLAND; PERCIFORMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84873646206     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3169.1     Document Type: Article

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