Application of Molecular Marker Techniques in Taxonomic Identification of Parasites / 中国寄生虫学与寄生虫病杂志

ABSTRACT

Different subspecies or strains of the same species produce varied clinical manifestations.The clarifica-tion of parasite taxonomy is useful for the researches of their biology, epidemiology and control.DNA molecular markers have the advantages of high polymorphism, non-pleiotropy, and clear identifying alleles, etc.This paper summarizes the first generation(restriction fragment length polymorphism, random amplified polymorphic DNA), second generation(sim-ple sequence repeat-anchored PCR, inter-simple sequence repeat) and third generation(single nucleotide polymorphism) molecular marker techniques, and their application in taxonomic identification of parasites.