Intergenic spacer (IGS) polymorphism: A new genetic marker for differentiation of Toxoplasma gondii strains and Neospora caninum

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 716-723

  Fazaeli, A ^a   Carter, P E ^a   Pennington, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; RNA 28S; RNA 5S;

ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

MURINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0033838811     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0716:isipan]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. A polymorphism in a DNA polymerase α gene intron differentiates between murine virulent and avirulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii
2. Population biology of Toxoplasma: Clonality, virulence, and speciation (or not)
3. Allelic polymorphism in Toxoplasma gondii implication for interstrain mating
4. Sex determination and sex differentiation in coccidia: Gametogony and oocyst production after monoclonal infection of cats with free-living and intermediate host stages of Isospora (Toxoplasma) gondii
5. Microsatellite in the beta-tubulin gene of Toxoplasma gondii as a new genetic marker for use in direct screening of amniotic fluids
6. A DNA fingerprinting method for individual characterisation of Toxoplasma gondii strains: Combination with isoenzymatic characters for determination of linkage groups
7. A family of repeated DNA sequences in Toxoplasma gondii: Cloning, sequence analysis, and use in strain characterisation
8. Biodiversity in Toxoplasma gondii
9. Isoenzyme analysis of 35 Toxoplasma gondii isolates and the biological and epidemiological implications
10. Severe toxoplasmosis caused by a Toxoplasma gondii strain with a new isoenzyme type acquired in French Guyana
11. Toxoplasma, Hammondia, Besnoitia, Sarcocystis, and other tissue cyst-forming Coccidia of man and animals
12. Newly recognised fatal protozoan disease of dog
13. A review of Neospora caninum and neosporosis
14. The phylogeny of Neospora caninum
15. Physical and genetic mapping of cloned ribosomal DNA from Toxoplasma gondii: Primary and secondary structure of the 5S gene
16. Toxoplasam gondii virulence markers identified by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction
17. Genetic characterisation of Toxoplasma gondii strains by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction
18. Ribosomal DNA: Molecular evolution and phylogenetic inference
19. The phylogeny of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii based on ribosomal RNA sequences
20. Comparison of the internal transcribed spacer, ITS 1, from Toxoplasma gondii isolates and Neospora caninum
21. Nucleotide sequence of transcriptional initiation region of Dicotyostelium discoideum rRNA gene and comparison of the initiation regions of three lower eukaryotes' genes
22. Toxoplasma gondii comprises three clonal lineages: Correlation of parasite genotype with human disease
23. The prevalence and source of Toxoplasma infection in the environment
24. The relationship of Hammondia hammondi and Sarcocystis mucosa to other heteroxenous cyst-forming coccidia as inferred by phylogenetic analysis of the 18S SSU ribosomal DNA sequence
25. Speculation on possible life cycles for the clonal lineages in the genus Toxoplasma
26. Toxoplasmosis: The nature of virulence
27. rRNA gene heterogeneity among Toxoplasma gondii strains
28. Identification of two alleles in the GRA4 locus of Toxoplasma gondii determination of type I versus type II and III strains
29. Two alleles of the gene encoding surface antigen P22 in 25 strains of Toxoplasma gondii
30. Development of gametes and oocysts in cats fed cysts derived from cloned trophozoites of Toxoplasma gondii
31. Specific DNA polymorphisms discriminate between virulent and non-virulent to mice in nine Toxoplasma gondii strains
32. Virulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii comprise a single clonal lineage
33. Towards a population genetics of microorganisms: The clonal theory of parasitic Protozoa
34. Are eukaryotic microorganisms clonal or sexual? A population genetics vantage