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Opisthorchis viverrini: Implications of the systematics of first intermediate hosts, Bithynia snail species in Thailand and Lao PDR.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2013
Kiatsopit Nadda, Sithithaworn Paiboon, Saijuntha Weerachai, Petney Trevor N, Andrews Ross H
Abstract excerpt
Bithynia snails are important hosts of the human liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini. Allozyme markers were used to examine genetic variation and the systematics of Bithynia snails from different geographical localities in Thailand and Lao PDR. Our results show that Bithynia siamensis goniomphalos contains two major evolutionary clades with at least nine morphologically similar but genetically distinct "cryptic"...
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