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The genus <i>Hammondia</i> is paraphyletic

DOI

78

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0

References

1999

Year

John Ellis, David A. Morrison, S. Liddell, Mark C. Jenkins, Osama B. Mohammed, Cheryl Ryce, Jola Dubey
Parasitology

Abstract

The phylogenetic relationships amongst Hammondia, Neospora and Toxoplasma were investigated by DNA sequence comparisons of the D2/D3 domain of the large subunit ribosomal DNA and the internal transcribed spacer 1. The results obtained allow us to reject the hypothesis that N. caninum and H. heydorni are the same species and show that Hammondia hammondi is probably the sister taxon to Toxoplasma gondii.