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Parasite
Volume 11, Number 1, March 2004
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Page(s) | 43 - 49 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/200411143 | |
Published online | 25 August 2014 |
Mémoire
Biomphalaria tenagophila : genetic variability within intermediate snail hosts susceptible and resistant to Schistosoma mansoni infection
Biomphalaria tenagophila : variabilité génétique des mollusques hôtes intermédiaires sensibles et résistants à l'infection par Schistosoma mansoni
1
Department of Biological Sciences, UNESP, Assis, SP, Brazil.
2
Medicinal Chemistry Department, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.
3
Institute of Biology, Parasitology Department, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
* Correspondence : João Tadeu Ribeiro-Paes, Department of Biological Sciences, UNESP, Av. Dom Antonio, 2100, Assis, SP, Brazil. 19806-900. E-mail : jtrpaes@assis.unesp.br
Received:
23
July
2002
Accepted:
25
October
2003
DNA analysis by molecular techniques has significantly expanded the perspectives of the study and understanding of genetic variability in molluscs that are vectors of schistosomiasis. In the present study, the genetic variability of susceptible and resistant B. tenagophila strains to S. mansoni infection was investigated using amplification of their genomic DNA by RAPD-PCR. The products were analyzed by PAGE and stained with silver. The results showed polymorphism between tested strains with four different primers. We found two bands of 1,900 and 3,420 bp that were characteristic of the susceptible strains with primer 2. The primers 9 and 10 identified a single polymorphic band that was also characteristic of (3, 136 and 5,041 bp, respectively) susceptible snails. Two polymorphic bands were detected by primer 15 : one with 1,800 bp was characteristic of the resistant strain and the other with = 1,700 bp in the susceptible one. These results provide additional evidence showing that the RAPD-PCR technique is adequate for the study of polymorphisms in intermediate hosts snails of S. mansoni. The obtained results are expected to expand the knowledge about the genetic variability of the snails and to permit the future identification of genomic sequences specifically related to the resistance/susceptibility of Biomphalaria to the larval forms of S. mansoni.
Résumé
Les analyses de l'ADN par le moyen de techniques moléculaires augmentent de façon significative les perspectives des études et les connaissances sur la variabilité génétique de mollusques hôtes intermédiaires de la schistosomiase. Dans cette étude, on a étudié la variabilité génétique de la résistance et de la sensibilité de B. tenagophila à l'infection par S. mansoni, en utilisant l'amplification du matériel génomique par RAPD-PCR. Les produits ont été analysés par PAGE et colorés au nitrate d'argent. Les résultats ont montré des polymorphismes avec quatre “primers" examinés. Il a été trouvé beaucoup de bandes polymorphiques dans les lignées de B. tenagophila résistantes et sensibles à l'infection par S. mansoni. On s'attend à ce que les résultats obtenus augmentent les connaissances en matière de variabilité génétique des mollusques et permettent la future identification des ordres génomiques liés à la résistance/sensibilité de Biomphalaria aux formes larvaires de S. mansoni.
Key words: Biomphalaria / schistosomiasis / RAPD-PCR / genetic variability / polymorphism
Mots clés : Biomphalaria / schistosomiase / RAPD-PCR / variabilité génétique / polymorphisme
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