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Uniparental inheritance of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b in Plasmodium falciparum.
Current genetics - 1 Jan 1993
Creasey A M, Ranford-Cartwright L C, Moore D J, Williamson D H, Wilson R J, Walliker D, Carter R
Abstract excerpt
The inheritance of an extrachromosomal 6-kb element has been examined in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. A single base pair difference in the cytochrome b gene from the 6-kb element of two different cloned lines of the parasite was identified, and used as a marker in a cross in the mosquito stage of the life cycle. Analysis of 59 individual hybrid oocysts resulting from this cross clearly...
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