Whence river blindness? The domestication of mammals and host-parasite co-evolution in the nematode genus Onchocerca

Emilie Lefoulon (1) , Alessio Giannelli (2) , Benjamin Makepeace (3) , Yasen Mutafchiev , Simon Townson , Shigehiko Uni , Guilherme Verocai , Domenico Otranto (2) , Coralie Martin (1, 4, 5)

1 MCAM - Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes
2 Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria,
3 University of Liverpool
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5 SU - Sorbonne Université

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology

Emilie Lefoulon, Alessio Giannelli, Benjamin Makepeace, Yasen Mutafchiev, Simon Townson, et al.. Whence river blindness? The domestication of mammals and host-parasite co-evolution in the nematode genus Onchocerca. International Journal for Parasitology, 2017, 47 (8), pp.457-470. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.12.009⟩. ⟨mnhn-02505537⟩