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Study of deoxyribonucleic acid buoyant densities, enzymic electrophoretic mobilities and morphology in vitro of two stocks of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) species from Myotis blythii oxygnathus (Chiroptera) in southern France led to the identification of T. (S.) dionisii breve n. subsp. It was differentiated from the nominate subspecies by the relative shortness of the long trypomastigotes developing in vitro (mean length 16.6±0.21 μm, compared with 19–21 μm), the presence of a smaller proportion of the deoxyribonucleic acid as satellite C, and different isoenzyme electrophoretic mobilities.
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This work was supported by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
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Baker, J.R., Miles, M.A. Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) dionisii breve n. subsp. from Chiroptera. Syst Parasitol 1, 61–65 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009774
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