Microsatellites in the freshwater snail Bulinus globosus (Gastropoda : Planorbidae) from Zanzibar

A M  Emery; N J  Loxton; R  Stothard; Catherine Sue Jones; J  Spinks; J  Llewellyn-Hughes; Leslie Robert Noble; D  Rollinson

doi:10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00368.x

Microsatellites in the freshwater snail Bulinus globosus (Gastropoda : Planorbidae) from Zanzibar

A M Emery, N J Loxton, R Stothard, Catherine Sue Jones, J Spinks, J Llewellyn-Hughes, Leslie Robert Noble, D Rollinson

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Abstract

Six microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized in Butinus globosus, a freshwater snail with a wide distribution throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Bulinus globosus is an intermediate host of Schistosoma haematobium, the causative agent of human urinary schistosomiasis. Microsatellites were tested using 32 snails from four populations collected from Pemba and Unguja islands of Zanzibar. The microsatellite loci displayed relatively low levels of variation, with between two and five alleles per locus. F-ST estimates indicate that gene flow is low, as has previously been suggested for other species of Bulinus.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-110
Number of pages	3
Journal	Molecular Ecology Notes
Volume	3
Issue number	1
Early online date	20 Jan 2003
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00368.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2003

Keywords

Bulinus globosus
East Africa
freshwater snails
genetic markers
microsatellite
schistosomiasis
water snail

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Microsatellites in the freshwater snail Bulinus globosus (Gastropoda : Planorbidae) from Zanzibar

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