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On the DNA content of Trypanosoma cruzi
R F Kooy1, F Ashall, M Van der Ploeg
1Division of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Protozoology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
|August 1, 1989
Abstract:
The DNA contents of three different Trypanosoma cruzi strains were compared by direct microfluorometry. The maximal difference found was 40% of the lowest value. Two of the cloned strains, reported in an earlier study to differ by 48% in their total DNA content, showed a difference of 33%. The kinetoplast of the Y strain made up about one third of its total genome. The absolute DNA content of T. cruzi was estimated at 125 to 200 fg.