Shirley M W
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Berkshire.
Res Vet Sci. 1994 Jul;57(1):10-4. doi: 10.1016/0034-5288(94)90074-4.
Four DNA probes that are reiterated several times within the genome of Eimeria tenella have been used to derive restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns that are characteristic for different laboratory-maintained or recently isolated populations. Three of the four probes hybridised only to DNA from E tenella whereas probe B209 also hybridised to DNA from both E praecox (strongly) and E acervulina (more weakly). The results of this study confirm the usefulness of DNA probes for taxonomic or identification studies and indicate that, with further effort, a wider range of strain-, species- and genera-specific DNA probes could be isolated to expand our understanding of the epizootiology of coccidial parasites.
