Demonstration of extrachromosomal DNA from Babesia equi merozoites.
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.
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Institute of Parasitology, Hannover School of Veterinary Medicine, Federal Republic of Germany.
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D000818:Animals; D001403:Babesia / Q000235:genetics*; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
D016054:DNA, Protozoan