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Stirred, not shaken: genetic structure of the intermediate snail host Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni in an historically endemic schistosomiasis area.
Parasites & vectors - 26 Oct 2011
Hauswald Anne-Kathrin, Remais Justin V, Xiao Ning, Davis George M, Lu Ding, Bale Margaret J, Wilke Thomas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni is the sole intermediate host for Schistosoma japonicum in western China. Given the close co-evolutionary relationships between snail host and parasite, there is interest in understanding the distribution of distinct snail phylogroups as well as regiona...
Topics
- Animals
- Biota
- China
- DNA
- Gastropoda
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeography
- Sequence Analysis, DNA