Diversity of Trypanosomatids (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) Parasitizing Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) and Description of a New Genus Blechomonas gen. n.

Protist

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 763-781

  Votýpka, Jan ^a,b   Suková, Eva ^a   Kraeva, Natalya ^c   Ishemgulova, Aygul ^c   Duží, Ivana ^a   Lukeš, Julius ^b,d   Yurchenko, Vyacheslav ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blechomonas; Co evolution; Host specificity; Phylogeny; Siphonaptera; Trypanosomatidae

Indexed keywords

HERPETOMONAS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

KINETOPLAST DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BLECHOMONAS; CLASSIFICATION; CO-EVOLUTION.; CZECH REPUBLIC; FLEA; GENETICS; GGAPDH; GLYCOSOMAL GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KDNA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SL; SPLICED LEADER RNA GENE REPEATS; SSU; TU; TYPING UNIT;

BLECHOMONAS; CO-EVOLUTION.; GGAPDH; GLYCOSOMAL GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HOST SPECIFICITY; KDNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; PHYLOGENY; SIPHONAPTERA; SL; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA GENE REPEATS; SSU; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; TU; TYPING UNIT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CZECH REPUBLIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EID: 84885115016     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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