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1 February 2005 Significant Morphological but Little Molecular Differences Between Trypanosoma of Rodents From Alaska
Juha Laakkonen, Andrew Smith, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Jukka Niemimaa, Heikki Henttonen
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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.

Juha Laakkonen, Andrew Smith, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Jukka Niemimaa, and Heikki Henttonen "Significant Morphological but Little Molecular Differences Between Trypanosoma of Rodents From Alaska," Journal of Parasitology 91(1), 201-203, (1 February 2005). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-3385RN
Published: 1 February 2005
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