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Seek, and you will find: Cryptic diversity of the cardiopulmonary nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum in the Americas.
Acta tropica - 1 Oct 2024
Robleto-Quesada Joby, Umaña-Blanco Fabián, Solano-Barquero Alberto, Allen Jennifer, Levi Taal, Gori Francesca, Schnyder Manuela, Rojas Alicia
Abstract excerpt
Angiostrongylus vasorum is a metastrongylid parasite infecting wild canids and domestic dogs. Its patchy distribution, high pathogenicity and taxonomical classification makes the evolutionary history of A. vasorum intriguing and important to study. First larval stages of A. vasorum were recovered...
Topics
- Animals
- Angiostrongylus
- Phylogeny
- Costa Rica
- Genetic Variation
- Strongylida Infections
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Feces
- Foxes
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- DNA, Helminth
- Haplotypes
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
- Americas
- Dogs
