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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 97, No. 7, 2002, pp. 997-1004
Bioline Code: oc02224
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 97, No. 7, 2002, pp. 997-1004

 en Morphological and Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Lenght Polymorphism Characterization of Biomphalaria kuhniana check for this species in other resources and Biomphalaria amazonica check for this species in other resources from Colombia
Luz E Velásquez; Roberta L Caldeira; Victoria Estrada & Omar S Carvalho

Abstract

In Colombia, five Biomphalaria check for this species in other resources planorbid species are known: B. kuhniana, B. straminea, B. peregrina, B. canonica and B. oligoza(var. B. philippiana). Among them, B. straminea is intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni and B. peregrina has been found to be experimentally susceptible to this parasite. B. straminea is commonly confused with B. kuhniana and they have been clustered together with B. intermedia in the complex named B. straminea. The difficulties involved in the specific identification, based on morphological data, have motivated the use of new techniques as auxiliary tools in cases of inconclusive morphological identification of such planorbid. In the present study, five Biomphalaria populations from the Colombian Amazon region and from Interandian Valleys were morphologically identified and characterized by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment lenght polymorphism directed at the internal transcribed spacer region of the rRNA gene, followed by digestion of the generated fragment with restriction enzymes (DdeI, AluI, RsaI, MvaI and HaeIII). Known profiles of the Brazilian species B. straminea, B. peregrina, B. kuhniana, B. intermedia and B. amazonica, besides B. kuhniana from Colombia, were used for comparison. The five populations under study were morphologically and molecularly identified as B. kuhniana and B. amazonica.

Keywords
Biomphalaria kuhniana check for this species in other resources - Biomphalaria amazonica check for this species in other resources - snails - polymerase chain reaction - restriction fragment length polymorphism - Colombia

 
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