Parasites & Vectors

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Absence of Wolbachia endobacteria in the non-filariid nematodes Angiostrongylus cantonensis and A. costaricensis

Jeremy M Foster1, Sanjay Kumar1, Louise Ford2, Kelly L Johnston2, Renata Ben3, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira3 and Mark J Taylor2*

Author Affiliations

1 Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, 240 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA

2 Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK

3 Laboratório de Parasitologia Molecular, Instituto de Pesquisas Biomédicas da PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Parasites & Vectors 2008, 1:31 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-1-31

Published: 18 September 2008

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Additional file 1:

Wolbachia 16S multiple sequence alignment – A. cantonensis. A multiple sequence alignment of the 16S sequence attributed to Wolbachia from A. cantonensis and corresponding 16S fragments from Wolbachia from diverse arthropod and nematode hosts.

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Additional file 2:

Wolbachia 16S multiple sequence alignment – D. circumlita. A multiple sequence alignment of the 16S sequence of Wolbachia from D. circumlita and corresponding 16S fragments from Wolbachia from diverse arthropod and nematode hosts.

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Additional file 3:

Wolbachia ftsZ multiple sequence alignment. A multiple sequence alignment of the ftsZ sequence attributed to Wolbachia from A. cantonensis and corresponding ftsZ fragments from Wolbachia from diverse arthropod and nematode hosts.

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