Insights from the DNA databases: Approaches to the phylogenetic structure of Acanthamoeba

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 145, Issue S, 2014, Pages S39-S45

  Fuerst, Paul A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA gene; Acanthamoeba; Phylogenetic analysis; Sequence types; Species names

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 18S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DATA BASE; DNA DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AMEBIASIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PARASITOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACANTHAMOEBA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84912074113     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2014.06.020     Document Type: Article

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