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Genomic analysis of a parasite invasion: colonization of the Americas by the blood fluke, <i>Schistosoma mansoni</i>

2021-10-26

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Schistosoma mansoni, a snail-vectored, blood fluke that infects humans, was introduced into the Americas from Africa during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. As this parasite shows strong specificity to the snail intermediate host, we expected that adaptation to S. American Biomphalaria spp. snails would result in population bottlenecks and strong signatures of selection. We scored 475,081 single nucleotide variant...

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Literature Corpus work: fe25f2bb-bb16-5ad0-a3e8-040269af95b3
DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.25.465783

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