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EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 133, Issue 1, Pages 44-50Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.10.011
Keywords
Malaria; Genetic cross; Rodent; Parasite cloning; Microsatellite
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2011121031]
- Project 111
- State Bureau of Foreign Experts
- Ministry of Education of China [B06016]
- 973 National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB513103]
- Intramural Research Program of the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health
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Genetic cross is a powerful tool for studying malaria genes contributing to drug resistance, parasite development, and pathogenesis. Cloning and identification of recombinant progeny (RP) is laborious and expensive, especially when a large proportion of progeny derived from self-fertilization are present in the uncloned progeny of a genetic cross. Since the frequency of cross-fertilization affects the number of recombinant progeny in a genetic cross, it is important to optimize the procedure of a genetic cross to maximize the cross-fertilization. Here we investigated the factors that might influence the chances of obtaining RP from a genetic cross and showed that different Plasmodium yoelii strains/subspecies/clones had unique abilities in producing oocysts in a mosquito midgut. When a genetic cross is performed between two parents producing different numbers of functional gametocytes, the ratio of parental parasites must be adjusted to improve the chance of obtaining RP. An optimized parental ratio could be established based on oocyst counts from single infection of each parent before crossing experiments, which may reflect the efficiency of gametocyte production and/or fertilization. The timing of progeny cloning is also important; cloning of genetic cross progeny from mice directly infected with sporozoites (vs. frozen blood after needle passage) at a time when parasitemia is low (usually <1%) could improve the chance of obtaining RP. This study provides an optimized protocol for efficiently cloning RPs from a genetic cross of malaria parasites. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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