Unexpected diversity of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis in wildlife in Canada

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 81-87

  Gesy, Karen M ^a   Schurer, Janna M ^a   Massolo, Alessandro ^b   Liccioli, Stefano ^b   Elkin, Brett T ^c   Alisauskas, Ray ^d   Jenkins, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Wildlife Management Division   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; Mitochondrial gene; Nad1; NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1; Nd1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904878923     PISSN: 22132244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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