Complexity of schistosome vector bulinine snails in Kenya: Insights from nuclear genome size variation, complete mitochondrial genome sequence, and morphometric analysis

• Si-Ming Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangsm@unm.edu

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-9711

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• Coen M. Adema,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Mohamed R. Habib,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Malacology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

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• Abdelmalek Lekired,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Marijan Posavi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Martina R. Laidemitt,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Geoffrey M. Maina,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Ibrahim N. Mwangi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Joseph M. Kinuthia,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Martin W. Mutuku,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Eric S. Loker

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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