De Novo Transcriptome Characterization of a Sterilizing Trematode Parasite (Microphallus sp.) from Two Species of New Zealand Snails.

ABSTRACT: Snail-borne trematodes represent a large, diverse, and evolutionarily, ecologically, and medically important group of parasites, often imposing strong selection on their hosts and causing host morbidity and mortality. Even so, there are very few genomic and transcriptomic resources available for this important animal group. We help to fill this gap by providing transcriptome resources from trematode metacercariae infecting two congeneric snail species, Potamopyrgus antipodarum and P. estuarinus This genus of New Zealand snails has gained prominence in large part through the development of P. antipodarum and its sterilizing trematode parasite Microphallus livelyi into a textbook model for host-parasite coevolutionary interactions in nature. By contrast, the inter

SUBMITTER: Bankers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5345718 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature