Article
Efficient genotyping of Schistosoma mansoni miracidia following whole genome amplification.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology - 1 Jul 2009
Valentim Claudia L L, LoVerde Philip T, Anderson Timothy J C, Criscione Charles D
Abstract excerpt
Small parasites and larval stages pose a problem for molecular analyses because limited amounts of DNA template are available. Isothermal methods for faithfully copying DNA have the potential to revolutionize studies of such organisms. We evaluated the fidelity of multiple displacement amplification (MDA) for amplifying DNA extracted from a single miracidium of Schistosoma mansoni. To do this we genotyped DNA...
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Genetic Techniques
- Genome, Helminth
- Genotype
- Life Cycle Stages
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Reproducibility of Results
- Schistosoma mansoni
