P. Marechal et al., ISOENZYMATIC DIAGNOSIS OF LITOMOSOIDES GALIZAI AND LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS, Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparee, 68(1), 1993, pp. 61-62
The morphological diagnosis of the two species, Litomosoides sigmodont
is Chandler, 1931 and L. galizai Bain, Petit et Diagne, 1989 is confir
med by the isoenzymatic analysis. In L. galizai, the mannose-phosphate
isomerase and the glucose-phosphate isomerase migrate much faster and
therefore further than in L. sigmodontis; a polymorphism at MPI locus
is shown in L. sigmodontis that does not exist in L. galizai. The <<
L. ? >> line, derived from the meriones in which it and L. sigmodontis
coexisted, is of the pure sigmodontis type, both in morphology and in
isoenzymes.