| phylogenetic relationships among the species of the genus testudo (testudines: testudinidae) inferred from mitochondrial 12s rrna gene sequences. | to test phylogenetic relationships within the genus testudo (testudines: testudinidae), we have sequenced a fragment of the mitochondrial (mt) 12s rrna gene of 98 tortoise specimens belonging to the genera testudo, indotestudo, and geochelone. maximum likelihood and neighbor-joining methods identify two main clades of mediterranean tortoises, one composed of the species testudo graeca, testudo marginata, and testudo kleinmanni and a second of testudo hermanni, testudo horsfieldii, and indotestud ... | 2002 | 11820839 |
| reptile-associated borrelia spp. in amblyomma ticks, thailand. | a total of 127 amblyomma ticks (a. helvolum, a. varanense and a. geoemydae) were collected from reptiles: water monitors (varanus salvator), bengal monitors (varanus bengalensis), burmese pythons (python bivittatus), yellow-spotted keelbacks (xenochrophis flavipunctatus), keeled rat snakes (ptyas carinata) and elongated tortoises (indotestudo elongata) from nine provinces in thailand. the presence of borrelia spp. of the 16s rrna, flab, glpq, groel and gyrb genes was examined by conventional, se ... | 2020 | 31668984 |
| a new species of orientatractis (nematoda: atractidae) from the tortoise indotestudo elongata (blyth) in china. | a new species of nematode, orientatractis longicaudata n. sp. is described from the intestine of indotestudo elongata (blyth) (testudinidae) from zoo of tianjin, tianjin, china. the new species can be easily distinguished from its congers by having longer tail, by the length of gubernaculum and left spicule, and by the numbers of caudal papillae. this is first species of orientatractis petter, 1966 reported in china. a key to the species of orientatractis is provided. | 2018 | 30367757 |