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Abundant genetic variation is retained in many laboratory schistosome populations.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Aug 2025
Jutzeler Kathrin S, Platt Roy N, Diaz Robbie, Morales Madison, Dunning Hotopp Julie, Le Clec'h Winka, Chevalier Frédéric D, Anderson Timothy J C
Abstract excerpt
Schistosomes are obligately sexual blood flukes that can be maintained in the laboratory using freshwater snails as intermediate and rodents as definitive hosts. The genetic composition of laboratory schistosome populations is poorly understood: whether genetic variation has been purged due to serial inbreeding or retained is unclear. We sequenced 19 - 24 parasites from each of five laboratory Schistosoma mansoni...
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- Animals
- Genetic Variation
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Schistosomiasis mansoni
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Genome, Helminth
