Journal article
Significant morphological but little molecular differences between Trypanosoma of rodents from Alaska
Journal of Parasitology, Vol.91(1), pp.201-203
2005
Abstract
We examined blood smears of 173 rodents and 33 shrews captured at 4 sites in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, northern Alaska, in summer 2002. Trypanosoma spp. were detected in the plasma of 5 Microtus oeconomus, 4 Microtus miurus, and 1 Lemmus trimucronatus. The trypomastigote morphology from different individuals of M. oeconomus caught at the same site and of M. miurus from different sites varied significantly. The 4 DNA sequences obtained from the blood smear positive samples contained 2 different haplotypes very similar to each other and to that of Trypanosoma microti. Of possible vectors of blood parasites, the flea Amalaraeus dissimilis was collected from M. miurus.
Details
- Title
- Significant morphological but little molecular differences between Trypanosoma of rodents from Alaska
- Authors/Creators
- J. Laakkonen (Author/Creator)A. Smith (Author/Creator)K. Hildebrandt (Author/Creator)J. Niemimaa (Author/Creator)H. Henttonen (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Parasitology, Vol.91(1), pp.201-203
- Publisher
- American Society of Parasitologists
- Identifiers
- 991005543422807891
- Copyright
- © American Society of Parasitologists 2005
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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