FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Diverging patterns of introgression from Schistosoma bovis across S. haematobium African lineages BT AF Rey, Olivier Toulza, Eve Chaparro, Cristian Allienne, Jean-François Kincaid-Smith, Julien Mathieu-Begné, Eglantine Allan, Fiona Rollinson, David Webster, Bonnie L. Boissier, Jérôme AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1,2;6:1;7:3;8:3;9:3;10:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:; C1 Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, UPVD, IHPE, Perpignan, France Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED), Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences (PPS), Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hawkshead Campus, Herts, United Kingdom Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Imperial College London School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom C2 UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE UNIV LONDON, UK IMPERIAL COLL LONDON, UK UM IHPE IN WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-europe IF 7.464 TC 20 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79020/81421.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79020/81422.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79020/81423.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79020/81424.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79020/81425.pdf LA English DT Article AB Hybridization is a fascinating evolutionary phenomenon that raises the question of how species maintain their integrity. Inter-species hybridization occurs between certain Schistosoma species that can cause important public health and veterinary issues. In particular hybrids between Schistosoma haematobium and S. bovis associated with humans and animals respectively are frequently identified in Africa. Recent genomic evidence indicates that some S. haematobium populations show signatures of genomic introgression from S. bovis. Here, we conducted a genomic comparative study and investigated the genomic relationships between S. haematobium, S. bovis and their hybrids using 19 isolates originating from a wide geographical range over Africa, including samples initially classified as S. haematobium (n = 11), S. bovis (n = 6) and S. haematobium x S. bovis hybrids (n = 2). Based on a whole genomic sequencing approach, we developed 56,181 SNPs that allowed a clear differentiation of S. bovis isolates from a genomic cluster including all S. haematobium isolates and a natural S. haematobium-bovis hybrid. All the isolates from the S. haematobium cluster except the isolate from Madagascar harbored signatures of genomic introgression from S. bovis. Isolates from Corsica, Mali and Egypt harbored the S. bovis-like Invadolysin gene, an introgressed tract that has been previously detected in some introgressed S. haematobium populations from Niger. Together our results highlight the fact that introgression from S. bovis is widespread across S. haematobium and that the observed introgression is unidirectional. PY 2021 PD FEB SO Plos Pathogens SN 1553-7366 PU Public Library of Science (PLoS) VL 17 IS 2 UT 000617973600002 DI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009313 ID 79020 ER EF