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SUBMITTER: Demkowska-Kutrzepa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8332368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demkowska-Kutrzepa Marta M Szczepaniak Klaudiusz K Roczeń-Karczmarz Monika M Palumbo Ezequiel O EO Studzińska Maria M Różański Paweł P Tomczuk Krzysztof K
International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife 20210715
During standard parasitological dissection of 4 individuals of European pond turtle (<i>E. orbicularis</i>) (Linneaus, 1758) one nematode was found. In a morphological examination the parasite was identified as <i>Spiroxys contortus</i> (Rudolphi, 1819) and confirmed by DNA analysis based on sequencing of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. The partial 18S rDNA gene was deposited to NCBI GenBank with the accession number MN629917. This is the first molecular evidence of <i>S. contortus</i> in ...[more]