PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ANURAN TRYPANOSOMES AS REVEALED BY RIBOPRINTING

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作者
CLARK, CG [1 ]
MARTIN, DS [1 ]
DIAMOND, LS [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TORONTO,DEPT ZOOL,TORONTO,ON M5S 1A1,CANADA
关键词
DISTANCE MATRIX; FROG; PARSIMONY; POLYMORPHISM; SMALL-SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE; TOAD;
D O I
10.1111/j.1550-7408.1995.tb01546.x
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Twenty trypanosome isolates from Anura (frogs and toads) assigned to several species were characterized by riboprinting-restriction enzyme digestion of polymerase chain reaction amplified small subunit ribosomal RNA genes. Restriction site polymorphisms allowed distinction of all the recognized species and no intraspecific variation in riboprint patterns was detected. Phylogenetic reconstruction using parsimony and distance estimates based on restriction fragment comigration showed Trypanosoma chattoni to be only distantly related to the other species, while T. ranarum and T. fallisi appear to be sister taxa despite showing non-overlapping host specificities.
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