Stirred, not shaken: genetic structure of the intermediate snail host <it>Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni </it>in an historically endemic schistosomiasis area

Stirred, not shaken: genetic structure of the intermediate snail host <it>Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni </it>in an historically endemic schistosomiasis area

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni </it>is the sole intermediate host for <it>Schistosoma japonicum </it>in western China. Given the close co-evolutionary relationships between snail host and parasite, there...

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Main Authors: Hauswald Anne-Kathrin, Remais Justin V, Xiao Ning, Davis George M, Lu Ding, Bale Margaret J, Wilke Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-10-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
China
Sichuan Province
<it>Oncomelania hupensis robertsoni</it>
schistosomiasis japonica
coevolution
AFLP
cytochrome <it>c </it>oxidase subunit I (COI)
phylogeny
phylogeography
watersheds
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