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Table 2 The internal transcribed sequence and 18S single nucleotide polymorphisms discriminating the three Schistosoma species and the hybrid forms

From: A duplex tetra-primer ARMS-PCR assay to discriminate three species of the Schistosoma haematobium group: Schistosoma curassoni, S. bovis, S. haematobium and their hybrids

SNP and Schistosoma species

DNA region

ITS

18S

SNP position

51

703

758

808

878

225

250

297

685

1184

S. haematobium

A

G

C

G

C

T

C

T

T

A

S. bovis

G

A

T

A

T

C

T

C

C

G

S. curassoni

A

A

T

A

T

T

T

T

T

G

  1. Hybrids can be observed to have alleles from both species in the combination, but this depends on the hybrid generation and the DNA marker being used
  2. The SNPs targeted by the ITS and 18S T-ARMS-PCRs are shown in italics
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