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Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)
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HAYES, Kenneth A. et al. Insights from an integrated view of the biology of apple snails (Caenogastropoda:Ampullariidae). Malacologia, v.58, n.1-2, p.245-302, 2015.
0076-2997
10.4002/040.058.0209
Autor
Hayes, Kenneth A.
Burks, Romi L.
Castro-Vasquez, Alfredo
Darby, Philip C.
Heras, Horacio
Martin, Pablo R.
Qiu, Jian-Wen
Thiengo, Silvana C.
Vega, Israel A.
Wada, Takashi
Yusa, Yoichi
Burela, Silvana
Cadierno, M. Pilar
Cueto, Juan A.
Dellagnola, Federico A.
Dreon, Marcos S.
Frassa, M. Victoria
Giraud-Billoud, Maximiliano
Godoy, Martin S.
Ituarte, Santiago
Koch, Eduardo
Matsukura, Keiichiro
Pasquevich, M. Yanina
Rodriguez, Cristian
Saveanu, Lucia
Seuffert, María E.
Strong, Ellen E.
Sun, Jin
Tamburi, Nicolás E.
Tiecher, María J.
Turner, Richard L.
Valentine-Darby, Patricia L.
Cowie, Robert H.
Resumen
Apple snails (Ampullariidae) are among the largest and most ecologically important freshwater
snails. The introduction of multiple species has reinvigorated the field and spurred a
burgeoning body of research since the early 1990s, particularly regarding two species introduced
to Asian wetlands and elsewhere, where they have become serious agricultural pests.
This review places these recent advances in the context of previous work, across diverse fields
ranging from phylogenetics and biogeography through ecology and developmental biology,
and the more applied areas of environmental health and human disease. The review does not
deal with the role of ampullariids as pests, nor their control and management, as this has been
substantially reviewed elsewhere. Despite this large and diverse body of research, significant
gaps in knowledge of these important snails remain, particularly in a comparative framework.
The great majority of the work to date concerns a single species, Pomacea canaliculata, which
we see as having the potential to become a model organism in a wide range of fields. However,
additional comparative data are essential for understanding this diverse and potentially
informative group. With the rapid advances in genomic technologies, many questions, seemingly
intractable two decades ago, can be addressed, and ampullariids will provide valuable
insights to our understanding across diverse fields in integrative biology.