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First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California

Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi is a recently described nematode parasite of tarantulas, originally isolated from a tarantula breeder in Virginia Beach, VA. We describe a new case of this parasite infecting tarantulas at a breeding facility in Los Angeles, California. Nematodes were isolated from the oral...

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Autores principales: Baniya, Anil, Ngov, Julie, Anesko, Kyle, Dillman, Adler R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Caltech Library 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37187899
http://dx.doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000825
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description Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi is a recently described nematode parasite of tarantulas, originally isolated from a tarantula breeder in Virginia Beach, VA. We describe a new case of this parasite infecting tarantulas at a breeding facility in Los Angeles, California. Nematodes were isolated from the oral cavity of a captive bred Psalmophoeus iriminia commonly referred to as a Venezuelan sun tiger tarantula. rDNA sequencing was conducted to identify the species and generate a phylogeny tree.
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spelling pubmed-101761092023-05-13 First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California Baniya, Anil Ngov, Julie Anesko, Kyle Dillman, Adler R MicroPubl Biol New Finding Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi is a recently described nematode parasite of tarantulas, originally isolated from a tarantula breeder in Virginia Beach, VA. We describe a new case of this parasite infecting tarantulas at a breeding facility in Los Angeles, California. Nematodes were isolated from the oral cavity of a captive bred Psalmophoeus iriminia commonly referred to as a Venezuelan sun tiger tarantula. rDNA sequencing was conducted to identify the species and generate a phylogeny tree. Caltech Library 2023-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10176109/ /pubmed/37187899 http://dx.doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000825 Text en Copyright: © 2023 by the authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title_full First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title_fullStr First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title_full_unstemmed First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title_short First report of Tarantula-parasitic nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from Los Angeles, California
title_sort first report of tarantula-parasitic nematode tarantobelus jeffdanielsi from los angeles, california
topic New Finding
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37187899
http://dx.doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000825
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