Article
Wetlands explain most in the genetic divergence pattern of Oncomelania hupensis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2014
Liang Lu, Liu Yang, Liao Jishan, Gong Peng
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the divergence patterns of hosts could shed lights on the prediction of their parasite transmission. No effort has been devoted to understand the drivers of genetic divergence pattern of Oncomelania hupensis, the only intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum. Based on a compilation of two O. hupensis gene datasets covering a wide geographic range in China and an array of geographical distance and...
Topics
- Animals
- China
- DNA, Intergenic
- Ecosystem
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Gastropoda
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Wetlands