Title |
Mating compatibility in the parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei
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Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-7-78 |
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Authors |
Lori Peacock, Vanessa Ferris, Mick Bailey, Wendy Gibson |
Abstract |
Genetic exchange has been described in several kinetoplastid parasites, but the most well-studied mating system is that of Trypanosoma brucei, the causative organism of African sleeping sickness. Sexual reproduction takes place in the salivary glands (SG) of the tsetse vector and involves meiosis and production of haploid gametes. Few genetic crosses have been carried out to date and consequently there is little information about the mating compatibility of different trypanosomes. In other single-celled eukaryotes, mating compatibility is typically determined by a system of two or more mating types (MT). Here we investigated the MT system in T. brucei. |
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