Background Gastropoda, the largest class within the phylum Mollusca, houses diverse gut
microbiota, and some gastropods serve as intermediate hosts for parasites. Studies have …

Aquatic snails, the intermediate hosts of schistosomes, harbor a diverse unexplored
microbiome. We speculate that this may play a critical role in host–parasite interactions. We …

Microbial symbionts can affect host phenotypes and, thereby, ecosystem functioning. The
microbiome is increasingly being recognized as an important player in the tripartite …

Planorbidae snails are the intermediate host for the trematode parasite of the Schistosoma
genus, which is responsible for schistosomiasis, a disease that affects both humans and …

Host-parasite interaction can result in a strong alteration of the host-associated microbiota.
This dysbiosis can affect the fitness of the host; can modify pathogen interaction and the …

Schistosomiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease infecting hundreds of millions of people.
Schistosomes use aquatic snails as intermediate hosts. A promising avenue for disease …

Background The microbiome is known to play key roles in health and disease, including
host susceptibility to parasite infections. The freshwater snail Galba truncatula is the …

Background Microbial communities associated with macroorganisms might affect host
physiology and homeostasis. Bacteria are well studied in this context, but the diversity of …

Aerolysins initially characterized as virulence factors in bacteria are increasingly found in
massive genome and transcriptome sequencing data from metazoans. Horizontal gene …

Host genotype may shape host-associated bacterial communities (commonly referred to as
microbiomes). We sought to determine (a) whether bacterial communities vary among host …