Journal article
Analyses of mitochondrial amino acid sequence datasets support the proposal that specimens of Hypodontus macropi from three species of macropodid hosts represent distinct species
A Jabbar, I Beveridge, N Mohandas, NB Chilton, DTJ Littlewood, AR Jex, RB Gasser
BMC Evolutionary Biology | BMC | Published : 2013
Abstract
Background: Hypodontus macropi is a common intestinal nematode of a range of kangaroos and wallabies (macropodid marsupials). Based on previous multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data sets, H. macropi has been proposed to be complex of species. To test this proposal using independent molecular data, we sequenced the whole mitochondrial (mt) genomes of individuals of H. macropi from three different species of hosts (Macropus robustus robustus, Thylogale billardierii and Macropus [Wallabia] bicolor) as well as that of Macropicola ocydromi (a related nematode), and undertook a comparative analysis of the amino acid sequence datasets derived from these gen..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This project was funded by the Australian Research Council. This project was also supported by a Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) grant number VR0007 on its Peak Computing Facility at the University of Melbourne, an initiative of the Victorian Government. Other support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Melbourne Water Corporation is gratefully acknowledged (R. B. G). The Early Career Researcher and Collaborative Research grants from The University of Melbourne are also gratefully acknowledged (A.J.).