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Demonstration of extrachromosomal DNA from Babesia equi merozoites
C Schelp1, R Böse, K T Friedhoff
1Institute of Parasitology, Hannover School of Veterinary Medicine, Federal Republic of Germany.
Parasitology Research
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
An extrachromosomal nucleic acid element was detected in high-molecular-weight DNA preparations form Babesia equi merozoites. This extrachromosomal element was shown to be DNA rather than RNA and had an apparent fragment size of about 9 kilobase-pairs (kb). Hybridization experiments using purified 9-kb DNA as a probe revealed sequence homologies with extrachromosomal DNA from two other Babesia species.