Nature Communications (May 2017)

Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail

  • Coen M. Adema,
  • LaDeana W. Hillier,
  • Catherine S. Jones,
  • Eric S. Loker,
  • Matty Knight,
  • Patrick Minx,
  • Guilherme Oliveira,
  • Nithya Raghavan,
  • Andrew Shedlock,
  • Laurence Rodrigues do Amaral,
  • Halime D. Arican-Goktas,
  • Juliana G. Assis,
  • Elio Hideo Baba,
  • Olga L. Baron,
  • Christopher J. Bayne,
  • Utibe Bickham-Wright,
  • Kyle K. Biggar,
  • Michael Blouin,
  • Bryony C. Bonning,
  • Chris Botka,
  • Joanna M. Bridger,
  • Katherine M. Buckley,
  • Sarah K. Buddenborg,
  • Roberta Lima Caldeira,
  • Julia Carleton,
  • Omar S. Carvalho,
  • Maria G. Castillo,
  • Iain W. Chalmers,
  • Mikkel Christensens,
  • Sandra Clifton,
  • Celine Cosseau,
  • Christine Coustau,
  • Richard M. Cripps,
  • Yesid Cuesta-Astroz,
  • Scott F. Cummins,
  • Leon di Stefano,
  • Nathalie Dinguirard,
  • David Duval,
  • Scott Emrich,
  • Cédric Feschotte,
  • Rene Feyereisen,
  • Peter FitzGerald,
  • Catrina Fronick,
  • Lucinda Fulton,
  • Richard Galinier,
  • Sandra G. Gava,
  • Michael Geusz,
  • Kathrin K. Geyer,
  • Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón,
  • Matheus de Souza Gomes,
  • Michelle A. Gordy,
  • Benjamin Gourbal,
  • Christoph Grunau,
  • Patrick C. Hanington,
  • Karl F. Hoffmann,
  • Daniel Hughes,
  • Judith Humphries,
  • Daniel J. Jackson,
  • Liana K. Jannotti-Passos,
  • Wander de Jesus Jeremias,
  • Susan Jobling,
  • Bishoy Kamel,
  • Aurélie Kapusta,
  • Satwant Kaur,
  • Joris M. Koene,
  • Andrea B. Kohn,
  • Dan Lawson,
  • Scott P Lawton,
  • Di Liang,
  • Yanin Limpanont,
  • Sijun Liu,
  • Anne E. Lockyer,
  • TyAnna L. Lovato,
  • Fernanda Ludolf,
  • Vince Magrini,
  • Donald P. McManus,
  • Monica Medina,
  • Milind Misra,
  • Guillaume Mitta,
  • Gerald M. Mkoji,
  • Michael J. Montague,
  • Cesar Montelongo,
  • Leonid L. Moroz,
  • Monica C. Munoz-Torres,
  • Umar Niazi,
  • Leslie R. Noble,
  • Francislon S. Oliveira,
  • Fabiano S. Pais,
  • Anthony T. Papenfuss,
  • Rob Peace,
  • Janeth J. Pena,
  • Emmanuel A. Pila,
  • Titouan Quelais,
  • Brian J. Raney,
  • Jonathan P. Rast,
  • David Rollinson,
  • Izinara C. Rosse,
  • Bronwyn Rotgans,
  • Edwin J. Routledge,
  • Kathryn M. Ryan,
  • Larissa L. S. Scholte,
  • Kenneth B. Storey,
  • Martin Swain,
  • Jacob A. Tennessen,
  • Chad Tomlinson,
  • Damian L. Trujillo,
  • Emanuela V. Volpi,
  • Anthony J. Walker,
  • Tianfang Wang,
  • Ittiprasert Wannaporn,
  • Wesley C. Warren,
  • Xiao-Jun Wu,
  • Timothy P. Yoshino,
  • Mohammed Yusuf,
  • Si-Ming Zhang,
  • Min Zhao,
  • Richard K. Wilson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15451
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Biomphalaria glabrata is a fresh water snail that acts as a host for trematode Schistosoma mansoni that causes intestinal infection in human. This work describes the genome and transcriptome analyses from 12 different tissues of B glabrata, and identify genes for snail behavior and evolution.