title: Genetic diversity of Schistosoma mansoni within and among individual hosts (Rattus rattus): infrapopulation differentiation at microspatial scale.
abstract: The distribution of genetic diversity in a local population of the trematode Schistosoma mansoni was determined within and between individual wild rats at a microspatial geographic scale of a standing water transmission site. Using RAPD markers, molecular variance and canonical correspondence analysis were performed to test the significance of genetic differentiation between infrapopulations. Of total gene diversity, 8 and 11% was partitioned between hosts trapped at few metres distance from each other. Significant temporal differentiation (2%) was also detected among schistosomes sampled at 6 month intervals with more infrapopulation pairs differentiated during the dry season of parasite transmission than during the rainy season (45 and 12%, respectively). A combination of factors such as restricted displacement of rats, patchy spatial aggregation of infected snails and limited cercarial dispersion in standing water are likely to promote the genetic differentiation observed between infrapopulations at this microgeographic scale.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, UMR 5555 CNRS-UP, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie tropicale et méditerranéenne, EPHE, Université. 52, Av. de Villeneuve, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sire
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Pointier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Théron
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018509:DNA, Helminth / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D019430:Guadeloupe / Q000453:epidemiology; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012621:Seasons
chemical_list: D018509:DNA, Helminth