About how many copies of the 18s rRNA gene does Naegleria fowleri have?

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Yehia A.-G. Mahmoud

Naegleria species seem to have several thousand copies. Go through this publication:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1594764/

Alaa AbdulAziz Abed

These articles may be useful to you:

1- . Kilvington, S., and J. Beeching. 1995. Development of a PCR for identification of Naegleria fowleri from the environment. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:3764-3767.

2-Pelandakis, M., S. Serre, and P. Pernin. 2000. Analysis of the 5.8S rRNA gene and the internal transcribed rs in Naegleria spp. and in N. fowleri. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 47:116-121.

3- Reveiller, F. L., P. A. Cabanes, and F. Marciano-Cabral. 2002. Development of a nested PCR assay to detect the pathogenic free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Parasitol. Res. 88:443-450.