The Prawn Macrobrachium vollenhovenii in the Senegal River Basin: Towards Sustainable Restocking of All-Male Populations for Biological Control of Schistosomiasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Savaya Alkalay, Amit ^a   Rosen, Ohad ^a   Sokolow, Susanne H ^b   Faye, Yacinthe P W ^c   Faye, Djibril S ^d   Aflalo, Eliahu D ^a   Jouanard, Nicolas ^e   Zilberg, Dina ^a   Huttinger, Elizabeth ^f   Sagi, Amir ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GASTON BERGER   (Senegal)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^e Centre de Recherches Biomédicales Espoir Pour la Sante   (Senegal)

^f The 20/20 Initiative ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE 12; CYSTEINE 14; CYSTEINE 15; CYSTEINE 23; CYSTEINE 32; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; INSULIN LIKE ANDROGENIC GLAND HORMONE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROBRACHIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENEGAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; PALAEMONIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RIVER;

ANIMALS; MALE; PALAEMONIDAE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENEGAL;

EID: 84938700257     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003060     Document Type: Article

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