| Literature DB >> 30150002 |
Timothy J C Anderson1, Philip T LoVerde2, Winka Le Clec'h3, Frédéric D Chevalier3.
Abstract
Linkage mapping - utilizing experimental genetic crosses to examine cosegregation of phenotypic traits with genetic markers - is now 100 years old. Schistosome parasites are exquisitely well suited to linkage mapping approaches because genetic crosses can be conducted in the laboratory, thousands of progeny are produced, and elegant experimental work over the last 75 years has revealed heritable genetic variation in multiple biomedically important traits such as drug resistance, host specificity, and virulence. Application of this approach is timely because the improved genome assembly for Schistosoma mansoni and developing molecular toolkit for schistosomes increase our ability to link phenotype with genotype. We describe current progress and potential future directions of linkage mapping in schistosomes.Entities:
Keywords: Schistosoma; fine mapping; functional analysis; heritability; linkage; phenotype
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30150002 PMCID: PMC6382074 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2018.08.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Parasitol ISSN: 1471-4922