Intraclonal mating occurs during tsetse transmission of Trypanosoma brucei

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Composition of trypanosome population in individual flies

Cross	Fly no.	Fluorescence of salivary gland population^a						Fluoroscence of transformed procyclics	Drug resistance of population^b
		Gland 1				Gland 2
		Red	Green	Yellow	Red	Green	Yellow		H	P	H + P
1738 RGFP	1	++	+++	+/-	++	+++	+/-	Red	-	+	-
	2	+	+++	-	+	+++	-	Green	+	-	-
	3	+/-	+++	-	+/-	+++	-	Green	+	-	-
	4	+/-	+++	-	+/-	+++	-	Green	+	-	-
	5	+/-	+++	-	+/-	+++	-	Green	+	-	-
	6	++	+++	+	+++	++	+	Green, Red	+	+	-
	7	+/-	+++	-	+++	+++	+	Green, Red	+	+	-
J10 RGFP	1	-	-	+++	+++	-	-	Red	+	-	-
	2	+	+++	-	+++	+++	-	Green, Red	+	+	-

a. Only flies with mixed infections in the salivary glands are listed. +++ many, ++ some, + few, +/- very few, - no trypanosomes.
b. H = hygromycin; P = phleomycin. + growth, - no growth.

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