Applying evolutionary genetics to schistosome epidemiology

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-443

  Steinauer, Michelle L ^a   Blouin, Michael S ^a   Criscione, Charles D ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Evolutionary epidemiology; Genetic structure; Hybridization; Molecular Epidemiology; Parasite; Pathogen; Population genetics; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SNAIL; WATERSHED; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS;

GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 77951972821     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.02.007     Document Type: Review

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