Genome of the ramshorn snail Biomphalaria straminea-an obligate intermediate host of schistosomiasis.
Wenyan NongYifei YuMadeleine E Aase-RemediosYichun XieWai Lok SoYiqian LiCheuk Fung WongToby BarilSean T S LawSheung Yee LaiJasmine HaimovitzThomas SwaleShan-Shan ChenZhen-Peng KaiXi SunZhongdao WuAlexander HaywardDavid E K FerrierJerome Ho-Lam HuiPublished in: GigaScience (2022)
This study provides the first genome assembly for the snail B. straminea and offers an unprecedented opportunity to address a variety of phenomena related to snail vectors of schistosomiasis, as well as evolutionary and genomics questions related to molluscs more widely.