Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 135, Issue 10, Pages 1179-1188Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004745
Keywords
Schistosoma mansoni; Biomphalaria glabrata; resistance; susceptibility; compatibility; parasite; host
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- CNRS
- Ministere de l'Ecologie et du Developpment Durable [752600]
- University of Perpignan and Oregon State University
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The genetic control of compatibility between laboratory strains of schistosomes and their snail hosts has been Studied intensively since the 1970s. These studies show (1) a bewildering array of genotype-by-genotype interactions - compatibility between one pair of strains rarely predicts compatibility with other strains, and (2) evidence for a variety of (sometimes conflicting) genetic mechanisms. Why do we observe Such variable and conflicting results? One Possibility is that it is partly an artifact of the use of laboratory strains that have been in culture for many years and are often inbred. Here we show that results of compatibility trials between snails and schistosomes - all derived from the same natural population - depend very much on whether one uses laboratory-cultured or field-collected individuals. Explanations include environmental effects of the lab on either host or parasite, and genetic changes in either host or parasite during laboratory culture. One intriguing possibility that genetic bottlenecks during laboratory culture cause the random fixation of alleles at highly polymorphic loci that control the matched/mismatched status of hosts and parasites. We show that a simple model of Phenotype matching could produce close response curves that look very similar to empirical observations. Such a model would explain Much of the genotype-by-genotype Interaction in compatibility observed among strains.
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