Article
Genetic variation in sympatric Ascaris populations from humans and pigs in China.
Parasitology - 1 Oct 1998
Peng W, Anderson T J, Zhou X, Kennedy M W
Abstract excerpt
It has recently been shown using genetic markers that Ascaris in humans and pigs in Central America comprise reproductively isolated populations. We present a similar analysis for a region of China in which close association between pigs and humans has been the norm for thousands of years, and ag...
Topics
- Animals
- Antinematodal Agents
- Ascariasis
- Ascaris
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- China
- DNA Restriction Enzymes
- DNA, Helminth
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Feces
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Guatemala
- Haplotypes
- Humans