GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF HELMINTHS WITH THE ARBITRARY PRIMED POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION

The genetic variability of helminths belonging to the three classes Ce stoda, Nematoda and Trematoda was analysed by means of polymerase chai n reaction with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR), Dendrog rams of genetic relationships between some representatives of the genu s Trichinella, Fasciola hepatica, Cysticerus ovis, Echinococcus granul osus, and Nematodirus spathiger were constructed on the basis of DNA a mplification patterns. The formation of ecological and genetic adaptat ions in the helminth groups studied is discussed.