The Biomphalaria glabrata DNA methylation machinery displays spatial tissue expression, is differentially active in distinct snail populations and is modulated by interactions with Schistosoma mansoni.

• Main Authors: Kathrin K Geyer (Author), Umar H Niazi (Author), David Duval (Author), Céline Cosseau (Author), Chad Tomlinson (Author), Iain W Chalmers (Author), Martin T Swain (Author), David J Cutress (Author), Utibe Bickham-Wright (Author), Sabrina E Munshi (Author), Christoph Grunau (Author), Timothy P Yoshino (Author), Karl F Hoffmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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The debilitating human disease schistosomiasis is caused by infection with schistosome parasites that maintain a complex lifecycle alternating between definitive (human) and intermediate (snail) hosts. While much is known about how the definitive host responds to schistosome infection, there is comp...