Genetic diversity and recruitment pattern of Schistosoma mansoni in a Biomphalaria glabrata snail population: a field study using random-amplified polymorphic DNA markers.

Abstract excerpt

Random-amplified polymorphic DNA markers have been used to assess the amount and the distribution of the genetic diversity of Schistosoma mansoni within a natural population of Biomphalaria glabrata at a transmission site of the murine schistosomiasis focus of Guadeloupe. Despite high infection rate and heavy schistosome load within the definitive hosts (Ratus rattus), prevalences within intermediate snails...

Topics

• Animals
• Biomphalaria
• DNA, Helminth
• Female
• Genetic Markers
• Genetic Variation
• Genotype
• Guadeloupe
• Male
• Mice
• Muridae
• Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique