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Spiny-cheek crayfish Orconectes limosus carry a novel genotype of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci.
Journal of invertebrate pathology - 1 Nov 2011
Kozubíková Eva, Viljamaa-Dirks Satu, Heinikainen Sirpa, Petrusek Adam
Abstract excerpt
The oomycete Aphanomyces astaci causes mass mortalities of European crayfish. Different species of North American crayfish, original hosts of this parasite, seem to carry different strains of A. astaci. So far, four distinct genotype groups have been recognised using Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR). We succeeded in isolating A. astaci from the spiny-cheek crayfish Orconectes limosus, a...
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