HIGHLY REPEATED SHORT DNA-SEQUENCES IN THE GENOME OF SCHISTOSOMA-MANSONI RECOGNIZED BY A SPECIES-SPECIFIC PROBE

被引:93
作者
HAMBURGER, J
TURETSKI, T
KAPELLER, I
DERESIEWICZ, R
机构
[1] The Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Parasitology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
关键词
DNA probe; Repeated DNA; Schistosoma mansoni; Species identification;
D O I
10.1016/0166-6851(91)90222-R
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A cloned 0.64-kb DNA sequence of Schistosoma mansoni contains 121-bp tandem repeats and comprises at least 12% of the schistosomal genome of both sexes. It exhibits a high degree of species specificity upon hybridization with Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma magrebowiei DNA, and could detect with high sensitivity schistosomal DNA sequences in infected snails. © 1991.
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