High levels of selfing are revealed by a parent-offspring analysis of the medically important freshwater snail, Bulinus forskalii (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-180

  Gow, Jennifer L ^a,b   Noble, Leslie R ^b   Rollinson, David ^c   Tchuente, Louis Albert Tchuem ^d   Jones, Catherine S ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre for Schistosomiasis and Parasitology   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

BASOMMATOPHORA; BULINUS FORSKALII; GASTROPODA; PULMONATA; SCHISTOSOMA; TREMATODA;

EID: 18944391416     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyi020     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. BARRETT, S.C.H. & ECKERT, C.G. 1990. Variation and evolution of plant mating systems. In: Biological approaches and evolutionary trends in plants (S. Kawano, ed.), 229-254. Academic Press, New York.
2. BAUR, B. & BAUR, A. 1992. Reduced reproductive compatability in Arianta arbustorum (Gastropoda) from distant populations. Heredity, 69: 65-72.
3. BELOT, J., GEERTS, S. & DIOUF, M. 1993. Observations on the population dynamics of snail hosts for schistosomes in the delta of the Senegal River basin. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 59: 7-13.
4. BIRKHEAD, T.R. 2000. Promiscuity. Cambridge University Press.
5. BROHEDE, J., PRIMMER, C.R., MØLLER, A. & ELLEGREN, H. 2002. Heterogeneity in the rate and pattern of germline mutation at individual microsatellite loci. Nucleic Acids Research, 30: 1997-2003.
6. BROWN, D.S. 1994. Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London.
7. CHARBONNEL, N., ANGERS, B., RAZATAVONJIZA, Y.R., BREMOND, P. & JARNE, P. 2002. Evolutionary aspects of the metapopulation dynamics of Biomphalaria pfifferi, the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15: 248-261.
8. CHARLESWORTH, D. & CHARLESWORTH, B. 1987. Inbreeding depression and its evolutionary consequences. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 18: 237-268.
9. DOUMS, C., VIARD, F., PERNOT, A.F., DELAY, B. & JARNE, P. 1996. Inbreeding depression, neutral polymorphism, and copulatory behaviour in freshwater snails: a self-fertilization syndrome. Evolution, 50: 1908-1918.
10. FASHUYI, S.A. 1981. Observations on the ecology of Bulinus (Physopsis) globosus (Morelet), B (Bulinus) forskalii (Ehrenberg) and Lymnaea natalensis (Krauss) in rice swamps in Sierra Leone. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 47: 328-333.
11. FISHER, R.A. 1941. Average excess and average effect of a gene substitution. Annals of Eugenics, 11: 53-63.
12. GOW, J.L., NOBLE, L.R., ROLLINSON, D. & JONES, C.S. 2001. Polymorphic microsatellites in the African freshwater snail, Bulinus forskalii (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Molecular Ecology Notes, 1: 237-240.
13. GOW, J.L., NOBLE, L.R., ROLLINSON, D., JONES, C.S. 2005. A high incidence of clustered microsatellite mutations revealed by parent-offspring analysis in the African freshwater snail, Bulinus forskalii (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Genetica, in press.
14. GOW, J.L., NOBLE, L.R., ROLLINSON, D., MIMPFOUNDI, R. & JONES, C.S. 2004. Breeding system and demography shape population genetic structure across ecological and climatic zones in the African freshwater snail, Bulinus forskalii (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), intermediate host for schistosomes. Molecular Ecology, 13: 3561-3573.
15. HAMILTON, W.D. 1980. Sex versus non-sex versus parasite. Oikos, 35: 282-290.
16. HURST, L.D. & PECK, J.R. 1996. Recent advances in understanding of the evolution and maintenance of sex. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 11: 46-52.
17. JARNE, P. & CHARLESWORTH, D. 1993. The evolution of the selfing rate in functionally hermaphrodite plants and animals. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 24: 441-466.
18. JARNE, P., PERDIEU, M.A., PERNOT, A.F., DELAY. B. & DAVID, P. 2000. The influence of self-fertilization and grouping on fitness attributes in the freshwater snail Physa acuta: population and individual inbreeding depression. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 13: 645-655.
19. JARNE, P., VIANEY-LIAUD, M. & DELAY, B. 1993. Selfing and outcrossing in hermaphrodite freshwater gastropods (Basommatophora): where, when and why. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 49: 99-125.
20. JOHNSON, M.S., STINE, O.C. & MURRAY, J. 1984. Reproductive compatibility despite large-scale genetic divergence in Cepaea nemoralis. Heredity, 53: 655-665.
21. JONES, C.S., NOBLE, L.R., OUMA, J., KARIUKI, H.C., MIMPFOUNDI, R., BROWN, D.S. & ROLLINSON, D. 1999. Molecular identification of schistosome intermediate hosts: case studies of Bulinus forskalii group species (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) from Central and East Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 68: 215-240.
22. JONES, C.S., ROLLINSON, D., MIMPFOUNDI, R., OUMA, J., KARIUKI, H.C. & NOBLE, L. 2001. Molecular evolution of freshwater snail intermediate hosts within the Bulinus forskalii group. Parasitology, 123: S277-S292.
23. KIRKPATRICK, M. & JARNE, P. 2000. The effects of a bottleneck on inbreeding depression and the genetic load. American Naturalist, 155: 154-167.
24. LIVELY, C.M. 1987. Evidence from a New Zealand snail for the maintenance of sex by parasitism. Nature, 328: 519-521.
25. LIVELY, C.M. & DYBDAHL, M.F. 2000. Parasites adaptation to locally common host genotypes. Nature, 405: 679-681.
26. LIVELY, C.M. & JOKELA, J. 2002. Temporal and spatial distributions of parasites and sex in a freshwater snail. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4: 219-226.
27. LLOYD, D.G. 1979. Some reproductive factors affecting the selection of self-fertilization in plants. American Naturalist, 113: 67-79.
28. LOKER, E.S., MOYO, H.G. & GARDNER, S.L. 1981. Trematode-gastropod associations in 9 non-lacustrine habitats in the Mwanza region of Tanzania. Parasitology, 83: 381-399.
29. MARUYAMA, K. & TACHIDA, H. 1992. Genetic variability and geographic structure in partially selfing populations. Japanese Journal of Genetics, 67: 39-51.
30. MAVÁREZ, J., POINTIER, J.P., DAVID, P., DELAY, B. & JARNE, P. 2002. Genetic differentiation, dispersal and mating system in the schistosome-transmitting freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata. Heredity, 89: 258-265.
31. MEUNIER, C., HURTREZ-BOUSSÈS, S., JABBOUR-ZAHAB, R., DURAND, P., RONDELAUD, D. & RENAUD, F. 2004. Field and experimental evidence of preferential selfing in the freshwater mollusc Lymnaea truncatuta (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Heredity, 92: 316-327.
32. MIMPFOUNDI, R. & GREER, G.J. 1990. Allozyme variation among populations of Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1831) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Cameroon. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 56: 363-371.
33. MINCHELLA, D.J. 1985. Host life-history variation in response to parasitism. Parasitology, 90: 205-216.
34. MUKARATIRWA, S., KRISTENSEN, T.K., SIEGISMUND, H.R. & CHANDIWANA, S.K. 1998. Genetic and morphological variation of populations belonging to the Bulinus truncatus/tropicus complex (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in south western Zimbabwe. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 64: 435-446.
35. MUKARATIRWA, S., SIEGISMUND, H.R., KRISTENSEN, T.K. & CHANDIWANA, S.K. 1996. Mother-offspring data in a study of the mating system in a natural population of Bulinus globosus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Zimbabwe. Genetical Research, 68: 95-100.
36. NGONSEU, E., GREER, G.J. & MIMPFOUNDI, R. 1992. Dynamique des populations et infestation de Bulinus truncatus et Bulinus forskalii par les larves de schistosomes en zone soudano-sahelienne au Cameroun. Annals of the Belgian Society for Tropical Medicine, 72: 311-320.
37. NJIOKOU, F., BELLEC, C., JARNE, P., FINOT, L. & DELAY, B. 1993. Mating system analysis using protein electrophoresis in the self-fertile hermaphrodite species Bulinus truncatus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 59: 125-133.
38. NJIOKOU, F., MOUAFO, J.B., TEUKENG, F., NJINE, T., EKOBO, A.S. & JARNE, P. 2000. The influence of self-fertilization and pairing on life-history traits in the freshwater snail Bulinus forskalii (Gastropoda Planorbidae). Acta Tropica, 76: 159-167.
39. PAGÈS, J.R., JOURDANE, J., SOUTHGATE, V.R. & TCHUEM TCHUENTÉ, L.-A. 2003. Reconnaissance de deux espèces jumelles au sein du taxon Schistosoma intercalation Fisher, 1934, agent de la schistosomose rectale humaine en Afrique. Description de Schistosoma guineensis n. sp. In: Taxonomy, ecology and evolution of metazoan parasites (C. Combes & J. Jourdane, eds), 2: 139-146. Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, Perpignan.
40. PEMBERTON, J.M., SLATE, J., BANCROFT, D.R. & BARRETT, J.A. 1995. Nonamplifying alleles at microsatellite loci: a caution for parentage and population studies. Molecular Ecology, 4: 249-252.
41. RICHARDS, C.S. & SHADE, P.C. 1987. The genetic variation of compatibility in Biomphalaria glabrata and Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of Parasitology, 73: 1146-1151.
42. ROLLINSON, D. & WRIGHT, C.A. 1984. Population studies on Bulinus cernicus from Mauritius. Malacologia, 25: 447-463.
43. SCHMITT, J. & GAMBLE, S.E. 1990. The effect of distance from the parental site on offspring performance in Impatiens capensis: a test of the local adaptation hypothesis. Evolution, 44: 2022-2030.
44. SCHRAG, S.J., MOOERS, A.Ø., NDIFON, G.T. & READ, A.F. 1994. Ecological correlates of male outcrossing ability in a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail. American Naturalist, 143: 636-655.
45. SOUTHGATE, V.R., ROLLlNSON, D., ROSS, G.C., KNOWLES, R.J. & VERCRUYSSE, J. 1985, On Schistosoma curassoni, S. haematobium and S. bovis from Senegal: development in Mesocricetus auratus, compatibility with species of Bulinus and their enzymes. Journal of Natural History, 19: 1249-1267.
46. STÄDLER, T., LOWE, M. & STREIT, B. 1993. Genetic evidence for low outcrossing rates in polyploid freshwater snails (Ancylus fluviatilis). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 251: 207-213.
47. STÄDLER, T., WEISNER, S. & STREIT, B. 1995. Outcrossing rates and correlated matings in a predominantly selfing freshwater snail. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 262: 119-125.
48. VIARD, F., DOUMS, C. & JARNE, P. 1997. Selfing, sexual polymorphism and microsatellites in the hermaphroditic freshwater snail Bulinus truncatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 264: 39-44.
49. WATTIER, R., ENGEL, C.R., SAUMITOU-LAPRADE, P. & VALERO, M. 1998. Short allele dominance as a source of heterozygote deficiency at microsatellite loci: experimental evidence at the dinucleotide locus GvlCT in Gracilaria gracilis (Rhodophyta). Molecular Ecology, 7: 1569-1573.
50. WEBSTER, J.P. 2002. Sex, snails, and schistosomes: the influence of compatibility genotype on reproductive strategy. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 41: 1-3.
51. WOODRUFF, D.S., MULVEY, M. & YIPP, M.W. 1985. Population genetics of Biomphalaria straminea in Hong Kong. Journal of Heredity, 76: 355-360.
52. WOOLHOUSE, M.E.J. & CHANDIWANA, S.K. 1989. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the population dynamics of Bulinus globosus and Biomphalaria pfeifferi and in the epidemiology of their infection with schistosomes. Parasitology, 98: 21-34.
53. WRIGHT, C.A., SOUTHGATE, V.R. & KNOWLES, R.J. 1934. What is Schistosoma intercalatum Fishers? Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 66: 28-64.
54. YAMAUCHI, A. & KAMITE, Y. 2003. Facultative sexual reproduction under frequency-dependent selection on a single locus. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 221: 411-424.
55. YURLOVA, N.I. 2003. The influence of trematode infections on reproductive potential of natural Lymnaea stagnalis population (Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae). Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 82: 1027-1036.