Korean J Parasitol.  2003 Mar;41(1):47-55. 10.3347/kjp.2003.41.1.47.

Phylogenetic relationship of ribosomal ITS2 and mitochondrial COI among diploid and triploid Paragonimus westermani isolates

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  • 1Department of Parasitology, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Gangneung 210-701, Korea. gmpark@kwandong.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 120-752, Korea.

Abstract

We compared patterns of intraspecific polymorphism of two markers with contrasting modes of evolution, nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), in the lung fluke, diploid and triploid Paragonimus westermani from three geographical regions of Korea. The genetic distances between three populations of Korean diploid and triploid P. westermani showed no significant difference in the nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (mtCOI) and ribosomaal second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) genes. A highly resolved strict-consensus tree was obtained that illustrated phylogenetically useful information of the ITS2 and mtCOI sequences from diploid and triploid P. westermani.


MeSH Terms

Animals
DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/*genetics
*Diploidy
Electron Transport Complex IV/*genetics
Evolution, Molecular
Genes, Helminth/genetics
Korea
Paragonimus/*genetics
*Phylogeny
*Polyploidy
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