Acanthamoeba everywhere: High diversity of Acanthamoeba in soils

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3151-3158

  Geisen, Stefan ^a,c   Fiore Donno, Anna Maria ^a   Walochnik, Julia ^b   Bonkowski, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Free living amoebae; Molecular ecology; Phylogeny; Protists; Soil microbiology

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SOIL;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ITALY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

ACANTHAMOEBA; PROTISTA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOIL; TIBET;

EID: 84921635875     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-3976-8     Document Type: Article

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