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| Duval, David; Galinier, Richard; Mouahid, Gabriel; Toulza, Eve; Allienne, Jean Francois; Portela, Julien; Calvayrac, Christophe; Rognon, Anne; Arancibia, Nathalie; Mitta, Guillaume; Theron, Andre; Gourbal, Benjamin. |
| Background Schistosomiasis is the second-most widespread tropical parasitic disease after malaria. Various research strategies and treatment programs for achieving the objective of eradicating schistosomiasis within a decade have been recommended and supported by the World Health Organization. One of these approaches is based on the control of snail vectors in endemic areas. Previous field studies have shown that competitor or predator introduction can reduce snail numbers, but no systematic investigation has ever been conducted to identify snail microbial pathogens and evaluate their molluscicidal effects. Methodology/Principal findings In populations of Biomphalaria glabrata snails experiencing high mortalities, white nodules were visible on snail... |
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| Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72716/71712.pdf |
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| Pinaud, Silvain; Portela, Julien; Duval, David; Nowacki, Fanny C.; Olive, Marie-aude; Allienne, Jean-francois; Galinier, Richard; Dheilly, Nolwenn M.; Kieffer-jaquinod, Sylvie; Mitta, Guillaume; Theron, Andre; Gourbal, Benjamin. |
| Discoveries made over the past ten years have provided evidence that invertebrate antiparasitic responses may be primed in a sustainable manner, leading to the failure of a secondary encounter with the same pathogen. This phenomenon called "immune priming" or "innate immune memory" was mainly phenomenological. The demonstration of this process remains to be obtained and the underlying mechanisms remain to be discovered and exhaustively tested with rigorous functional and molecular methods, to eliminate all alternative explanations. In order to achieve this ambitious aim, the present study focuses on the Lophotrochozoan snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, in which innate immune memory was recently reported. We provide herein the first evidence that a shift from a... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00315/42664/71872.pdf |
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| Tennessen, Jacob A.; Theron, Andre; Marine, Melanie; Yeh, Jan-ying; Rognon, Anne; Blouin, Michael S.. |
| Schistosomiasis, a neglected global pandemic, may be curtailed by blocking transmission of the parasite via its intermediate hosts, aquatic snails. Elucidating the genetic basis of snail-schistosome interaction is a key to this strategy. Here we map a natural parasite-resistance polymorphism from a Caribbean population of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata. In independent experimental evolution lines, RAD genotyping shows that the same genomic region responds to selection for resistance to the parasite Schistosoma mansoni. A dominant allele in this region conveys an 8-fold decrease in the odds of infection. Fine-mapping and RNA-Seq characterization reveal a <1Mb region, the Guadeloupe Resistance Complex (GRC), with 15 coding genes. Seven genes are... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72714/71716.pdf |
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| Fneich, Sara; Theron, Andre; Cosseau, Celine; Rognon, Anne; Aliaga, Benoit; Buard, Jerome; Duval, David; Arancibia, Nathalie; Boissier, Jerome; Roquis, David; Mitta, Guillaume; Grunau, Christoph. |
| Background: Adaptive evolution is not possible without the generation of phenotypic variants. The origin of these variations has been a central topic in evolutionary biology. Up to now, it was commonly accepted that standing genetic variation is the only cause of phenotypic variants. However, epigenetic information is emerging as a complementary source of heritable phenotypic variation that contributes to evolution. The relative importance of genetics and epigenetics in generating heritable phenotypic variation is nevertheless a matter of debate. Results: We used a host-parasite system to address this question. The human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni can adapt rapidly to new intermediate snail hosts. The interaction between parasite and mollusk is... |
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Palavras-chave: Epigenetics; Adaptive evolution; Compatibility polymorphism; Schistosoma mansoni. |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72708/71730.pdf |
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| Galinier, Richard; Roger, Emmanuel; Mone, Yves; Duval, David; Portet, Anais; Pinaud, Silvain; Chaparro, Cristian; Grunau, Christoph; Genthon, Clemence; Dubois, Emeric; Rognon, Anne; Arancibia, Nathalie; Dejean, Bernard; Theron, Andre; Gourbal, Benjamin; Mitta, Guillaume. |
| In recent decades, numerous studies have sought to better understand the mechanisms underlying the compatibility between Biomphalaria glabrata and Schistosoma mansoni. The developments of comparative transcriptomics, comparative genomics, interactomics and more targeted approaches have enabled researchers to identify a series of candidate genes. However, no molecular comparative work has yet been performed on multiple populations displaying different levels of compatibility. Here, we seek to fill this gap in the literature. We focused on B. glabrata FREPs and S. mansoni SmPoMucs, which were previously demonstrated to be involved in snail/schistosome compatibility. We studied the expression and polymorphisms of these factors in combinations of snail and... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00388/49951/50515.pdf |
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