• Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma Mansoni. 

      Dejong, Randall J.; Morgan Jess, A. T.; Lobato Paraense, W.; Pointier, Jean-Pierre; Amarista, Manuel; Ayeh-Kumi, Patrick F. K; Babiker, Ahmed; Barbosa, Constança S.; Brémond, Philippe; Canese, Andrés Pedro; Pereira de Souza, Cecilia; Domínguez, Claudio; File, Sharon; Gutierrez, Alfredo; Incani, Nino; Kawano, Toshie; Kazibwe, Francis; Kpikpi, John; Lwambo, Nicholas J. S.; Mimpfoundi, Remy,; Njiokou, Flobert; Poda, Jean Noël; Sene, M.; Velázquez, Luz Elena; Yong, Mary; Adema, Coen M. .; Hofkin, Bruce V.; Mkoji, Gerald M.; Loker, Eric S. (Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2001)
      The wide geographic distribution of Schistosoma mansoni, a digenetic trematode and parasite of humans, is determined by the occurrence of its intermediate hosts, freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria (Preston 1910). ...