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Integrating genetics and genomics to identify new leads for the control of Eimeria spp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2005

M. W. SHIRLEY ,
D. BLAKE ,
S. E. WHITE ,
R. SHERIFF  and
A. L. SMITH
M. W. SHIRLEY
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berks., UK, RG20 7NN.
D. BLAKE
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berks., UK, RG20 7NN.
S. E. WHITE
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berks., UK, RG20 7NN.
R. SHERIFF
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berks., UK, RG20 7NN.
A. L. SMITH
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berks., UK, RG20 7NN.
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Abstract

Eimerian parasites display a biologically interesting range of phenotypic variation. In addition to a wide spectrum of drug-resistance phenotypes that are expressed similarly by many other parasites, the Eimeria spp. present some unique phenotypes. For example, unique lines of Eimeria spp. include those selected for growth in the chorioallantoic membrane of the embryonating hens egg or for faster growth (precocious development) in the mature host. The many laboratory-derived egg-adapted or precocious lines also share a phenotype of a marked attenuation of virulence, the basis of which is different as a consequence of the in ovo or in vivo selection procedures used. Of current interest is the fact that some wild-type populations of Eimeria maxima are characterized by an ability to induce protective immunity that is strain-specific. The molecular basis of phenotypes that define Eimeria spp. is now increasingly amenable to investigation, both through technical improvements in genetic linkage studies and the availability of a comprehensive genome sequence for the caecal parasite E. tenella. The most exciting phenotype in the context of vaccination and the development of new vaccines is the trait of strain-specific immunity associated with E. maxima. Recent work in this laboratory has shown that infection of two inbred lines of White Leghorn chickens with the W strain of E. maxima leads to complete protection to challenge with the homologous parasite, but to complete escape of the heterologous H strain, i.e. the W strain induces an exquisitely strain-specific protective immune response with respect to the H strain. This dichotomy of survival in the face of immune-mediated killing has been examined further and, notably, mating between a drug-resistant W strain and a drug-sensitive H strain leads to recombination between the genetic loci responsible for the specificity of protective immunity and resistance to the anticoccidial drug robenidine. Such a finding opens the way forward for genetic mapping of the loci responsible for the induction of protective immunity and integration with the genome sequencing efforts.

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Eimeriagenomegeneticsimmunityvaccinescontrol
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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 128 , Issue S1 , October 2004 , pp. S33 - S42
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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