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Global genetic diversity of Spirometra tapeworms.
Tropical biomedicine - 1 Mar 2020
Hong X, Liu S N, Xu F F, Han L L, Jiang P, Wang Z Q, Cui J, Zhang X
Abstract excerpt
Spirometra larvae are etiological agents of human sparganosis. However, the systematics of spirometrid cestodes has long been controversial. In order to determine the current knowledge on the evolution and genetic structure of Spirometra, an exhaustive population diversity analysis of spirometrid cestodes using the mitochondrial gene: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) was performed. All publicly available...
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