The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia

• Main Authors: Liang Liu, Mohammed M.H. Mondal, Mohamed A. Idris, Hakim S. Lokman, P. R.V.Jayanthe Rajapakse, Fadjar Satrija, Jose L. Diaz, E. Suchart Upatham, Stephen W. Attwood
• Other Authors: West China Hospital of Sichuan University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/29212
• Institution: Mahidol University

Background: The freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus is found across India, Southeast Asia, central Asia (Afghanistan), Arabia and Africa. Indoplanorbis is of economic importance in that it is responsible for the transmission of several species of the genus Schistosoma which infect cattle and caus...