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Title |
One known and an unknown species of the genus Thaparocleidus Jain, 1952, infecting Sperata aor (Hamilton, 1822): comparison with species from China, on molecular basis
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Authors |
Saroj Rajvanshi & Nirupama Agrawal*
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Affiliation |
Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, 226007, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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dr_neeru_1954@yahoo.co.in; *Corresponding author |
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Article Type |
Hypothesis |
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Date |
Received May 25, 2013; Accepted May 27, 2013; Published June 29, 2013
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Abstract |
Sperata aor commonly called as long- whiskered cat fish or “Bada Tengan” in local fish markets harboured one new and one previously known species of genus Thaparocleidus Jain, 1952, along with two species of Cornudiscoides Kulkarni, 1969, infesting gills. Thaparocleidus aori (Rizvi, 1971) Lim, 1996, was earlier described by Rizvi therefore was briefly recorded in the present study, except the egg. The newly found species Thaparocleidus susanae n.sp was characterized by the structure of its peculiar copulatory organ. Phylogenetic relationship of the two species under study, along with 14, reterived from GenBank was established using the sequences of 28S rDNA region (Dactylogyrus Diesing, 1850 taken as an out group). |
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Keywords |
Thaparocleidus, 28S rDNA, Phylogenetic analysis.
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Citation |
Rajvanshi & Agrawal,
Bioinformation 9(11): 577-582 (2013) |
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Edited by |
P Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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License |
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of
the
Creative Commons Attribution License. |