Crosstalk among Taenia crassiceps (ORF Strain) Cysts Regulates Their Rates of Budding by Ways of Soluble and Contact Signals Exchanged between Them

Figure 1

Effect of soluble factors on the budding of cysticerci. One microscopically nonbudding cysticercus/mL was cultured for over 10 days in fresh culture media; culture media from 5 cysticerci/mL or from 10 cysticerci/mL changed on a daily basis. The number of buds generated by the single cysticerci in each culture condition was counted at the 10th day. Experiments were performed by triplicate. Data represent the number of buds/cyst in each cysticercus and are plotted as individual value. Representative experiment is shown.