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Species of gastropod
Biomphalaria straminea is a
species of air-breathing
freshwater snail , an
aquatic
pulmonate
gastropod
mollusk in the
family Planorbidae, the
ram 's horn snails.
This snail is a medically important
pest ,
[1] because an
intermediate host for the parasite
Schistosoma mansoni and a
vector of
schistosomiasis .
[2]
The history of these discoveries was summarized by Paraense (2001).
[3]
The shell of this species, like all planorbids is sinistral in coiling, but is carried upside down and thus appears to be dextral.
Distribution
Biomphalaria glabrata is a
Neotropical
[1] species. It occurs in:
This species has recently expanded its native range.
[1] As an introduced species, it occurs in:
Phylogeny
To allow comparisons with other mollusc genomes, a high-quality genome assembly for B. straminea together with accompanying transcriptomes has been sequenced, producing a 1.005 Gb in size reference genome consisting of 36 chromosomes.
[7]
A
cladogram showing phylogenic relations of species in the genus Biomphalaria :
[8]
Parasites
Biomphalaria straminea is an
intermediate host for
Schistosoma mansoni and a
vector of
intestinal schistosomiasis . Schistosoma mansoni came to Neotropics from Africa in context of the
slave trade .
[8] Schistosoma mansoni was not able to infect Biomphalaria straminea previously and it has adapted to this host.
[8]
References
^
a
b
c Pointier JP, David P, Jarne P (September 2005). "Biological invasions: the case of planorbid snails". Journal of Helminthology . 79 (3): 249–56.
doi :
10.1079/JOH2005292 .
PMID
16153319 .
S2CID
11158571 .
^ Borda CE, Rea MJ (March 2007).
"Biomphalaria tenagophila potencial vector of Schistosoma mansoni in the Paraná River basin (Argentina and Paraguay)" . Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz . 102 (2): 191–195.
doi :
10.1590/s0074-02762007005000022 .
hdl :
1807/57161 .
PMID
17426884 .
^ Paraense WL (2001).
"The Schistosome Vectors in the Americas" . Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz . 96 (supplement): 7–16.
doi :
10.1590/S0074-02762001000900002 .
PMID
11586421 . Archived from
the original on 6 July 2011.
^ Pointier JP (1993).
"The introduction of Melanoides tuberculata (Mollusca: Thiaridae) to the island of Saint Lucia (West Indies) and its role in the decline of Biomphalaria glabrata , the snail intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni " . Acta Tropica . 54 (1): 13–18.
doi :
10.1016/0001-706x(93)90064-i .
PMID
8103624 .
^ Meier-Brook C (1974).
"A snail intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni introduced into Hong Kong" . Bulletin of the World Health Organization . 51 (6): 661.
PMC
2366262 .
PMID
4549615 .
^ Attwood, Stephen W.; Huo, Guan-Nan; Qiu, Jian-Wen (2015-01-01).
"Update on the distribution and phylogenetics of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) populations in Guangdong Province, China" . Acta Tropica . Progress in research and control of helminth infections in Asia. 141 (Pt B): 258–270.
doi :
10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.04.032 .
ISSN
0001-706X .
PMID
24811366 .
^ Nong, Wenyan; Yu, Yifei; Aase-Remedios, Madeleine E; Xie, Yichun; So, Wai Lok; Li, Yiqian; Wong, Cheuk Fung; Baril, Toby; Law, Sean T S; Lai, Sheung Yee; Haimovitz, Jasmine (2022-01-01).
"Genome of the ramshorn snail Biomphalaria straminea—an obligate intermediate host of schistosomiasis" . GigaScience . 11 : giac012.
doi :
10.1093/gigascience/giac012 (inactive 31 January 2024).
ISSN
2047-217X .
PMC
8848322 .
PMID
35166339 . {{
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link )
^
a
b
c DeJong RJ, Morgan JA, Paraense WL, Pointier JP, Amarista M, Ayeh-Kumi PF, et al. (December 2001).
"Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma mansoni" . Molecular Biology and Evolution . 18 (12): 2225–39.
doi :
10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003769 .
PMID
11719572 .
Further reading
Yang Y, Cheng W, Wu X, Huang S, Deng Z, Zeng X, Yuan D, Yang Y, Wu Z, Chen Y, Zhou Y, Jiang Q (May 2018).
"Prediction of the potential global distribution for Biomphalaria straminea, an intermediate host for Schistosoma mansoni" . PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 12 (5): e0006548.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pntd.0006548 .
PMC
5993297 .
PMID
29813073 .