Characterization and molecular epidemiology of a fungal infection of edible crabs (Cancer pagurus) and interaction of the fungus with the dinoflagellate parasite Hematodinium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 783-793

  Smith, Amanda L ^a   Hamilton, Kristina M ^a   Hirschle, Lucy ^a   Wootton, Emma C ^a   Vogan, Claire L ^a   Pope, Edward C ^a   Eastwood, Daniel C ^a   Rowley, Andrew F ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSATIVE AGENTS; CO-INFECTIONS; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGAL INFECTION; FUNGAL ISOLATES; HOST RESPONSE; HOST TISSUES; INTERTIDAL SITES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NATURAL INFECTION; PARASITE; PURE CULTURE; RIBOSOMAL DNA (RDNA); SMALL SUBUNITS; UNITED KINGDOM;

DISEASES; FUNGI; GENE ENCODING; HISTOLOGY; TISSUE;

SHELLFISH;

FUNGAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

CRAB; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMAL; ANOMURA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALS; ANOMURA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FUNGI; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WALES;

SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84873852617     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02945-12     Document Type: Article

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