Article
Oncomelania hupensis (Gastropoda: rissooidea) in eastern China: molecular phylogeny, population structure, and ecology.
Acta tropica - 2 Nov 2000
Wilke T, Davis G M, Cui-E C, Xiao-Nung Z, Xiao Peng Z, Yi Z, Spolsky C M
Abstract excerpt
The rissooidean snail genus Oncomelania is of medical interest as various taxa are hosts for the human blood fluke Schistosoma and the lung fluke Paragonimus; because of close co-evolved host-parasite-relationships, snail diversity may reflect parasite diversity. There is a considerable amount of confusion regarding the identity of smooth- and ribbed-shelled populations of Oncomelania hupensis in eastern China....
Topics
- Animals
- China
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction