The past three years has seen the launch of a new World Health Organization (WHO)
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) roadmap, together with revised control and elimination …

Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …

The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was
created in 2008 to answer questions of importance to program managers working to reduce …

Background Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of global medical and
veterinary importance. As efforts to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem and …

Zoonotic spillover and hybridization of parasites are major emerging public and veterinary
health concerns at the interface of infectious disease biology, evolution, and control …

Control and elimination of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis relies on mass
administration of praziquantel. Whilst these programmes reduce infection prevalence and …

Urogenital schistosomiasis is caused by the blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium and is
one of the most neglected tropical diseases worldwide, afflicting> 100 million people. It is …

Among the snail genera most responsible for vectoring human-infecting schistosomes,
Bulinus, Biomphalaria, and Oncomelania, the former is in many respects the most important …

When two species hybridize, the two parental genomes are brought together and some
alleles might interact for the first time. To date, the extent of the transcriptomic changes in first …

Schistosomiasis remains a parasitic infection which poses serious public health
consequences around the world, particularly on the African continent where cases of …