Don,
you might try contacting Don McManus and Paul Brindley in Australia. They
are working on the S. Japonicum side of the Schisto genome project using
an EST approach and may be able to help you either with the clone itself or
with an EST clone which appears homologous to Sj23.
Alternatively, there are already numerous S. mansoni ESTs on Genbank/DBest
some of which may have sig homology with Sj23 which you could use as probes.
Good luck.
DAJ
David A. Johnston
Research Fellow,
Dept of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road,
South Kensington, London SW7 5BD. England
tel 0171 9389297 (from outside UK: 44 171 9389297)
fax 0171 9388754 (from outside UK: 44 171 9388754)
email daj at nhm.ac.uk
