Crithidia fasciculata: a test for genetic exchange
Crithidia fasciculata: a test for genetic exchange
Votýpka, J.; Ray, D.S.; Lukes, J.
Experimental Parasitology 99(2): 104-107
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-4894
PMID: 11748964
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2001.4648
This study aims to detect genetic exchange in Crithidia fasciculata, both in insects (Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, C. pipiens molestus and Aedes aegypti) and in culture. C. fasciculata strains carried either the neomycin (NEO) and G418 (HYG) markers in one of their ribonuclease H1 alleles. Results did not support the existence of genetic exchange in C. fasciculata, both in culture and in the insect hosts.