Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Malacologia
DOI: 10.4002/040.058.0209
Authors: Kenneth A. Hayes, Romi L. Burks, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez, Philip C. Darby, Horacio Heras, Pablo R. Martín, Jian-Wen Qiu, Silvana C. Thiengo, Israel A. Vega, Takashi Wada, Yoichi Yusa, Silvana Burela, M. Pilar Cadierno, Juan A. Cueto, Federico A. Dellagnola, Marcos S. Dreon, M. Victoria Frassa, Maximiliano Giraud-Billoud, Martín S. Godoy, Santiago Ituarte, Eduardo Koch, Keiichiro Matsukura, M. Yanina Pasquevich, Cristian Rodriguez, Lucía Saveanu, María E. Seuffert, Ellen E. Strong, Jin Sun, Nicolás E. Tamburi, María J. Tiecher, Richard L. Turner, Patricia L. Valentine-Darby, Robert H. Cowie
Institutions: Smithsonian Institution, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System, National Museum of Natural History, Howard University, Southwestern University, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, University of West Florida, Biochemistry Research Institute of La Plata, Centro Científico Tecnológico - Bahía Blanca, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Hong Kong Baptist University, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Nara Women's University, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas, Florida Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Insect Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: National Science Foundation, University of Michigan, Fordham University, Strong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Office of International Science and Engineering
OpenAlex ID: W2175432936