R. Schols

Ecosystem Links: Macrophytes, Snail Preferences, and Trematode Transmission in Man-Made Water Bodies

The paper examines the relationship between macrophytes, snail species, and trematode transmission in man-made reservoirs, finding specific macrophyte-snail associations and impacts of land use on snail diversity and infection rates.

First evidence of a causal link between genetic variation and thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail

This study identifies a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in Bulinus truncatus snails, showing how local adaptation influences survival, reproduction, and ecophysiological traits in response to temperature.

Host-microbiome transplants of the schistosome snail host Biomphalaria glabrata reflect species-specific associations

The paper demonstrates that Biomphalaria glabrata snails can acquire novel bacterial communities through microbiome transplants, with donor phylogenetic relatedness affecting recipient survival.