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Specific status of Echinococcus canadensis (Cestoda: Taeniidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences.
International journal for parasitology - 1 Dec 2017
Yanagida Tetsuya, Lavikainen Antti, Hoberg Eric P, Konyaev Sergey, Ito Akira, Sato Marcello Otake, Zaikov Vladimir A, Beckmen Kimberlee, Nakao Minoru
Abstract excerpt
The specific status of Echinococcus canadensis has long been controversial, mainly because it consists of the mitochondrial lineages G6, G7, G8 and G10 with different host affinity: G6 (camel strain) and G7 (pig strain) with domestic cycles and G8 (cervid strain) and G10 (Fennoscandian cervid strain) with sylvatic or semi-domestic cycles. There is an argument whether the mitochondrial lineages should be...
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