Bulinus snails in the Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya: Systematics and their role as hosts for schistosomes

Nuclear genome of Bulinus truncatus, an intermediate host of the carcinogenic human blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium

(2022) Neil D. Young et al.   Nature Communications

Transmission and diversity of Schistosoma haematobium and S. bovis and their freshwater intermediate snail hosts Bulinus globosus and B. nasutus in the Zanzibar Archipelago, United Republic of Tanzania

(2022) Tom Pennance et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Specialist by preference, generalist by need: availability of quality hosts drives parasite choice in a natural multihost−parasite system

(2021) Darío Ezequiel Manzoli et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Diverging patterns of introgression from Schistosoma bovis across S. haematobium African lineages

(2021) Olivier Rey et al.   PLoS Pathogens

It’s a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators

(2021) Brendan K. Hobart et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Interactions between Schistosoma haematobium group species and their Bulinus spp. intermediate hosts along the Niger River Valley

(2020) Tom Pennance et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Diversity of digenean trematode larvae in snails from Lake Victoria, Kenya: First reports and bioindicative aspects

(2020) James Omondi Outa et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Assessing the diversity and distribution of potential intermediate hosts snails for urogenital schistosomiasis: Bulinus spp. (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) of Lake Victoria

(2020) Fred D. Chibwana et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Whole-genome sequence of the bovine blood fluke Schistosoma bovis supports interspecific hybridization with S. haematobium

(2019) Harald Oey et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi‐host, multi‐parasite system

(2019) Lisa N. Barrow et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The diverse echinostomes from East Africa: With a focus on species that use Biomphalaria and Bulinus as intermediate hosts

(2019) Martina R. Laidemitt et al.   ACTA TROPICA

A Search for Snail-Related Answers to Explain Differences in Response of Schistosoma mansoni to Praziquantel Treatment among Responding and Persistent Hotspot Villages along the Kenyan Shore of Lake Victoria

(2019) Martin W. Mutuku et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Ancient hybridization and adaptive introgression of an invadolysin gene in schistosome parasites

(2019) Roy N Platt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effects of the Environment on Developmental Plasticity and Infection Success of Schistosoma Parasites – An Epigenetic Perspective

(2019) Ronaldo de Carvalho Augusto et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Molecular identification of Bulinus spp. intermediate host snails of Schistosoma spp. in crater lakes of western Uganda with implications for the transmission of the Schistosoma haematobium group parasites

(2019) Immaculate Tumwebaze et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Antagonism between parasites within snail hosts impacts the transmission of human schistosomiasis

(2019) Martina R Laidemitt et al.   eLife

MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms

(2018) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species

(2018) Torsten H. Struck et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The phylogeny of the genus Indoplanorbis (Gastropoda, Planorbidae) from Africa and the French West Indies

(2018) Gabriel Mouahid et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Schistosomes, snails and climate change: Current trends and future expectations

(2018) Anna-Sofie Stensgaard et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Schistosomiasis

(2018) Donald P. McManus et al.   Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Amphistome infections in domestic and wild ruminants in East and Southern Africa: A review

(2018) Davies M. Pfukenyi et al.   ONDERSTEPOORT JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH

Morphological Characteristics and Phylogenetic Trends of Trematode Cercariae in Freshwater Snails from Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand

(2017) Thapana Chontananarth et al.   KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Genetic variation and host-parasite specificity of Striga resistance and tolerance in rice: the need for predictive breeding

(2017) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mapping freshwater snails in north-western Angola: distribution, identity and molecular diversity of medically important taxa

(2017) Fiona Allan et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Schistosomiasis from a Snail’s Perspective: Advances in Snail Immunity

(2017) Emmanuel A. Pila et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Loads of trematodes: discovering hidden diversity of paramphistomoids in Kenyan ruminants

(2016) MARTINA R. LAIDEMITT et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Plasmodium prevalence across avian host species is positively associated with exposure to mosquito vectors

(2015) MATTHEW C. I. MEDEIROS et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Hidden biodiversity in an ancient lake: phylogenetic congruence between Lake Tanganyika tropheine cichlids and their monogenean flatworm parasites

(2015) Maarten P. M. Vanhove et al.   Scientific Reports

Gene expression differences underlying genotype-by-genotype specificity in a host–parasite system

(2014) Seth M. Barribeau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host compatibility rather than vector-host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites

(2013) M. C. I. Medeiros et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Compatibility polymorphism in snail/schistosome interactions: From field to theory to molecular mechanisms

(2011) G. Mitta et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Coevolutionary hotspots and coldspots for host sex and parasite local adaptation in a snail-trematode interaction

(2011) Kayla C. King et al.   OIKOS

Mouse models for pathogenic African trypanosomes: unravelling the immunology of host-parasite-vector interactions

(2011) S. MAGEZ et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Malacological survey and geographical distribution of vector snails for schistosomiasis within informal settlements of Kisumu City, western Kenya

(2011) Selpha Opisa et al.   Parasites & Vectors

The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia

(2010) Liang Liu et al.   Parasites & Vectors

A molecular phylogenetic analysis of Bulinus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with conserved nuclear genes

(2010) Aslak Jørgensen et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Rapid diagnostic multiplex PCR (RD-PCR) to discriminate Schistosoma haematobium and S. bovis

(2009) B.L. Webster et al.   JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY

Schistosoma kisumuensis n. sp. (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) from murid rodents in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya and its phylogenetic position within the S. haematobium species group

(2009) B. HANELT et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Host-parasite coevolution and patterns of adaptation across time and space

(2008) S. GANDON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular characterization of freshwater snails in the genus Bulinus: a role for barcodes?

(2008) Richard A Kane et al.   Parasites & Vectors