Article
Widespread heteroplasmy in schistosomes makes an mtVNTR marker "nearsighted".
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Curtis J, Fraga L A, de Souza C P, Corrêa-Oliveira R, Minchella D J
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial markers are often hailed as the preferred DNA elements for analyses of population subdivision. To this end we have employed a mitochondrial repeat element to examine the population structure in Schistosoma mansoni (human blood flukes). Schistosome isolates were collected from each of 21 different patients representing seven different areas of a Brazilian village. These parasite isolates demonstrate...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Protozoan
- Feces
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Mice