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Title: | Genetic variability in cysteine protease genes of Haemonchus contortus | Authors: | Ruiz Reyes, Antonio Molina Caballero, José Manuel Njue, A. Prichard, R. K. |
UNESCO Clasification: | 240112 Parasitología animal | Keywords: | Haemonchus contortus Cysteine proteases Genetic variation SSCP |
Issue Date: | 2004 | Journal: | Parasitology | Abstract: | To increase the existent genetic variability in cysteine proteases, a polymorphism study was performed in Haemonchus contortus by comparing 2 different strains of the parasite: North American (NA) and Spanish (SP) strains. For this purpose, the polymorphism of 5 previously reported genes (AC-1, AC-3, AC-4, AC-5 and GCP-7) were analysed by PCR-SSCP and sequencing procedures. Based oil the SSCP results, a total of 20 different alleles were identified for the 3 loci assessed. Except locus AC-5, all the loci were polymorphic. Loci AC-1, AC-3, AC-4 GCP-7 showed 5, 8, 2 and 4 alleles, respectively. The allelic frequencies ranged from 0.0070 to 0.8560 and were significantly different between strains. In addition, nucleotide diversity analyses showed a significant variation within and between strains. The variations in the nucleotide sequence of the different alleles were translated in some cases into changes in the amino acid sequence. Evidence of genetic variability in cysteine proteases from two different strains of H. contortus for the same set of genes had not been previously reported. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/77013 | ISSN: | 0031-1820 | DOI: | 10.1017/S0031182004004998 | Source: | Parasitology [ISSN 0031-1820], v. 128 (5), p. 549-559, (Mayo 2004) |
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