PMID- 22211939 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120615 LR - 20220309 IS - 1574-6968 (Electronic) IS - 0378-1097 (Linking) VI - 328 IP - 2 DP - 2012 Mar TI - Identification of Chromera velia by fluorescence in situ hybridization. PG - 144-9 LID - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02489.x [doi] AB - Chromera velia is evolutionarily the closest free-living and photosynthetic organism to the medically important obligatory parasitic apicomplexans that cause diseases including malaria and toxoplasmosis. In this study, a novel oligonucleotide probe targeting C. velia's small subunit ribosomal RNA was designed. To enable usage of this probe as a detection tool, a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) protocol was optimized. The results obtained showed that when used in combination, the C. velia CV1 probe and optimized FISH protocol enabled efficient detection of C. velia in culture. This new technique will allow a better understanding of the ecological role of C. velia within the coral microhabitat. CI - (c) 2011 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Morin-Adeline, Victoria AU - Morin-Adeline V AD - Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. FAU - Foster, Christie AU - Foster C FAU - Slapeta, Jan AU - Slapeta J LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120119 PL - England TA - FEMS Microbiol Lett JT - FEMS microbiology letters JID - 7705721 RN - 0 (Culture Media) RN - 0 (Oligonucleotide Probes) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Anthozoa/*parasitology MH - Apicomplexa/chemistry/genetics/growth & development/*isolation & purification MH - Base Sequence MH - Culture Media/chemistry MH - DNA/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence/*methods MH - Oligonucleotide Probes/*chemistry MH - RNA, Ribosomal/genetics MH - Sequence Alignment EDAT- 2012/01/04 06:00 MHDA- 2012/06/16 06:00 CRDT- 2012/01/04 06:00 PHST- 2011/11/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/12/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/12/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/01/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02489.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2012 Mar;328(2):144-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02489.x. Epub 2012 Jan 19.