A GENETIC-ANALYSIS OF REPRODUCTION IN STRONGYLOIDES-RATTI

被引:60
作者
VINEY, ME
机构
[1] Division of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, King's Buildings, West Mains Road
关键词
STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; GENETICS; PARTHENOGENESIS;
D O I
10.1017/S0031182000080768
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
Strongyloides ratti has a complex life-cycle with two adult generations, one free-living and dioecious and one parasitic and female only. The parasitic females reproduce by parthenogenesis, but it is unclear whether this is mitotic or meiotic in nature. This question has been addressed genetically by analysing the progeny of parasitic females that were heterozygous at an actin locus for evidence of allelic segregation. Such progeny were similarly heterozygous showing that segregation had not occurred. It was therefore concluded that reproduction in the parasitic female of S. ratti is functionally mitotic.
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