Novel Insights into the Genetic Diversity of Balantidium and Balantidium-like Cyst-forming Ciliates

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pomajbíková, Kateřina ^a   Oborník, Miroslav ^b,c   Horák, Aleš ^b,c   Petrželková, Klára J ^a,b,d,e   Grim, J Norman ^f   Levecke, Bruno ^g,h   Todd, Angelique ⁱ   Mulama, Martin ⁱ   Kiyang, John ^j   Modrý, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e Liberec Zoo   (Czech Republic)

^f NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

ⁱ World Wildlife Fund ^*  (Kenya)

^j Limbe Wildlife Centre   (Cameroon)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; BALANTIDIUM; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CYST (RESTING STAGE); GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 84875968069     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002140     Document Type: Article

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