New insights on the genetic diversity of the honeybee parasite Nosema ceranae based on multilocus sequence analysis

Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1346-1356

  Roudel, Mathieu ^a   Aufauvre, Julie ^a   Corbara, Bruno ^a   Delbac, Frederic ^a   Blot, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

diversity; honeybee; Nosema ceranae; parasite

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENETIC MARKER; RIBOSOME DNA;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGAL GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HONEYBEE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; NOSEMOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VETERINARY;

APIS MELLIFERA; NOSEMA CERANAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSEMA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84883096502     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182013001133     Document Type: Article

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