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Schistosoma mansoni: analysis of an unusual infection phenotype in the intermediate host snail Biomphalaria glabrata.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Nov 1993
Lewis F A, Richards C S, Knight M, Cooper L A, Clark B
Abstract excerpt
Snails from a B. glabrata stock, selected for nonsusceptibility to the NMRI strain of S. mansoni, exhibited unusual schistosome infections, with multiple sporocysts prominent in the head-foot (foot-sporocysts). When F1 progeny from numerous crosses between well-defined susceptible (S) and resistant (R) parental snails were exposed, 60% of the infected snails also exhibited this unusual phenotype. F1 progeny from...
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