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Effects of Nonschistosome Larval Trematodes on Biomphalaria Snails

2010

This chapter examines the most salient literature on the development of nonschistosome larval digeneans in Biomphalaria spp. (members of the ­superfamilies Clinostomoidea, Diplostomoidea, Echinostomatoidea, Paramphistomoidea, and Pronocephaloidea). For this purpose, the general biology of the nonschistosome trematode species that use Biomphalaria spp. as ­intermediate hosts are ­analyzed. Thereafter, the main features of these parasitic infections are studied with ­particular emphasis on topics such as the effect of the infections on the snail, the antagonism and/or competition between different digenean species in the snail, the ­immunology of the infection, and the genomic and proteomic a…