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Published on: July 11, 2025
[Progress of research on taxonomy of Oncomelania hupensis]
1Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Key Laboratory on Technology for Parasitic Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, Center for Pesticide Effect Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuxi 214064, China.
Abstract:
In the early periods, the research on taxonomy of Oncomelania hupensis mainly focused on the traditional methods--morphology and anatomy, and then numerical taxonomy, cytogenetics, and population genetics are used in this discipline. With the advance of the molecular biology techniques, emerging technologies, such as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), microsatellite, and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), are used to study the taxonomy of Oncomelania hupensis. This paper mainly reviews the advances in the research on taxonomy of Oncomelania hupensis.
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