Entamoeba Shows Reversible Variation in Ploidy under Different Growth Conditions and between Life Cycle Phases

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000281

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Entamoeba Shows Reversible Variation in Ploidy under Different Growth Conditions and between Life Cycle Phases

19 Aug 2008

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Under axenic growth conditions, trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica contain heterogenous amounts of DNA due to the presence of both multiple nuclei and different amounts of DNA in individual nuclei. In order to establish if the DNA content and the observed heterogeneity is maintained during different growth conditions, we have compared E. histolytica cells growing in xenic and axenic cultures. Our results show...

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