Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Single-cell atlas of the first intra-mammalian developmental stage of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

  • Carmen Lidia Diaz Soria,
  • Jayhun Lee,
  • Tracy Chong,
  • Avril Coghlan,
  • Alan Tracey,
  • Matthew D. Young,
  • Tallulah Andrews,
  • Christopher Hall,
  • Bee Ling Ng,
  • Kate Rawlinson,
  • Stephen R. Doyle,
  • Steven Leonard,
  • Zhigang Lu,
  • Hayley M. Bennett,
  • Gabriel Rinaldi,
  • Phillip A. Newmark,
  • Matthew Berriman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20092-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Schistosomes undergo several develepmental stages during infection of humans. Here, the authors perform single-cell RNA sequencing on the earliest intra-mammalian stage of Schistosoma mansoni and generate a comprehensive cell-type atlas for this human parasite.