Morphological polymorphism of Trypanosoma copemani and description of the genetically diverse T. vegrandis sp. nov. from the critically endangered Australian potoroid, the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata (Gray, 1837))

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Thompson, Craig K ^a   Botero, Adriana ^a   Wayne, Adrian F ^b   Godfrey, Stephanie S ^a   Lymbery, Alan J ^a   Thompson, R C Andrew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bettongia; Fluorescence; Morphology; PCR; penicillata; Sequencing; T. copemani; Trypanosoma vegrandis; Woylie

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BETTONGIA PENICILLATA; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KINETOPLAST; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA COPEMANI; TRYPANOSOMA VEGRANDIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; POTOROIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BETTONGIA; BETTONGIA PENICILLATA; MAMMALIA; PENICILLATA; POTOROIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84876666995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-121     Document Type: Article

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