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Molecular characterization of Fasciola hepatica, Fasciola gigantica, and aspermic Fasciola sp. in China based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.
Parasitology research - 1 Sept 2009
Peng Mao, Ichinomiya Mie, Ohtori Maiko, Ichikawa Madoka, Shibahara Toshiyuki, Itagaki Tadashi
Abstract excerpt
Parthenogenic Fasciola forms as well as bisexual Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica in mainland China have been identified on the basis of their spermatogenesis and genotypes in nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) and mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase I (NDI). The Chinese aspermic Fasciola would include forms originating in interspecific hybrids between F. hepatica and F. gigantica, since...
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