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    • Evolutionary Relationships and Biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with Implications Regarding Its Role as Host of the Human Bloodfluke, Schistosoma mansoni 

      Kazibwe, Francis; DeJong, Randall J; Morgan, Jess A. T; Morgan, Jess A. T; Lobato Paraense, W.; Pointier, Jean-Pierre; Amarista, Manuel; Ayeh-Kumi, Patrick F. K; Babiker, Ahmed; Barbosa, Constanc¸a S.; Bre´mond, Philippe; Canese, Andre´s Pedro; de Souza, Cecilia Pereira; Dominguez, Claudio; File, Sharon; Gutierrez, Alfredo; Nino Incani, R.; Kawano, Toshie; Kpikpi, John; Lwambo, Nicholas J. S.; Mimpfoundi, Remy; Njiokou, Flobert; Noe¨l Poda, Jean; Vela´squez, Luz Elena; Yong, Mary; Adema, Coen M; Hofkin, Bruce V.; Mkoji, Gerald M; Loker, Eric S. (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2001)
      The wide geographic distribution of Schistosoma mansoni, a digenetic trematode and parasite of humans, is determined by the occurrence of its intermediate hosts, freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria (Preston 1910). ...