SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

E. A. Thiele, R. E. Sorensen, A. Gazzinelli and D. J. Minchella. 2008. Genetic diversity and population structuring of Schistosoma mansoni in a Brazilian village. International Journal for Parasitology. 38:389-399.

Sandland, G. J., A. V. Foster, M. Zavodna and D. J. Minchella. 2007. Interplay between host genetic diversity and parasite transmission in the Biomphalaria glabrata - Schistosoma mansoni system. Parasitology Research. 101:1083-1089.

Sandland, G. J., J. T. Detwiler, and D. J. Minchella. 2007. Understanding ecological principles through parasitological pedagogy. Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching: Proceedings of the 28th Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education. 28:295-308.

Sandland, G. J., J. R. Rodgers and D. J. Minchella. 2007. Interspecific antagonism and virulence in hosts exposed to multiple parasite species. Journal of Invertebrae Pathology. 96:43-47.

Zhang, P., G. J. Sandland, Z. Feng, D. Xu, D. J. Minchella.. 2007. Evolutionary implications for interactions between multiple strains of host and parasite. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 248(2):225-240

Dennis J. Minchella. 2007. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. — A Teaching Primer. Journal of College Science Teaching. July/August pp 12-13.

Rodrigues, N. B., M. R. Silva, M. M. Pucci, D. J. Minchella, R. E. Sorensen, P. T. LoVerde, A. J. Romanha, and G. Oliveira. 2007. Microsatellite enriched genomic libraries as a source of polymorphic loci for Schistosoma mansoni. Molecular Ecology Notes. 7:263-265

Wethington, A. R., M. Zavodna, M. K. Smith, G. Oliveira, F. Lewis, and D. J. Minchella. 2007. Population genetic structure of Biomphalaria glabrata in a schistosomiasis-endemic region in Brazil. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 73:45-52.

Sorensen, R. E., N. B. Rodrigues, G. Oliveira, A. J. Romanha and D. J. Minchella. 2006. Genetic filtering and optimal sampling of Schistosoma mansoni populations. Parasitology. 133:443-451.

Xu, D., J. Curtis, Z. Feng and D. J. Minchella.  2006.  On the role of schistosome mating structure in the maintenance of resistant strains. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 68:209-229.

D. J. Minchella.  2005.  The Role of Variation in Host-Parasite Interactions: Linking Genetic Demes and Life History Schemes.  The Journal of Parasitology 91(6):1246-1252.

Rodgers, J., G. Sandland, S. Joyce, and D. J. Minchella.  2005.  Multi-species interactions among a commensual (Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei), a parasite (Schistosoma mansoni) and an aquatic snail host (Blomphalaria glabrata).  The Journal of Parasitology 91(3):709-712.

Stohler, R.A., J. Curtis and D.J. Minchella. 2004.  A comparison of microsatellite polymorphism and heterozygosity in laboratory versus field strains of Schistosoma mansoni. International Journal of Parasitology  34:595-601.

Sandland, G.J.  and D. J. Minchella.  2004.  Context-dependent  life-history variation in a pond snail (Lymnaea elodes) exposed to desiccation and a sterilizing parasite. Ecoscience  11:181-186.

Feng, Z., A. Eppert, F. A. Milner and D. J. Minchella.  2004.  Estimation of parameters governing the transmission dynamics of schistosomes. Applied Mathematics Letters  17:1105-1112.

Sandland, G. J. and D. J. Minchella.  2004.  Life-history plasticity in hosts (Lymnaea elodes) exposed to differing resources and parasitism. Canadian Journal of Zoology  82:1672-1677.

Sandland, G. J. and D.J. Minchella. 2003. Effects of diet and Echinostoma revolutum infection on energy allocation patterns in juvenile Lymnaea elodes snails. Oecologia. 134:479-486.

Rowe, C., W. Ittiprasert, C. Patterson, C. Eliff, K. Page, S. Bandoni, T. Wilke, D. J. Minchella, F. Lewis, and M. Knight. 2003. Use of microsatellite variation and RAPD-PCR to assess genetic polymorphism in Biomphalaria glabrata snails from a single locale in a schistosomiasis endemic area. Malacologia 45:149-166.

Sandland, G. J. and D. J. Minchella 2003. Costs of immune defense: an enigma wrapped in an environmental cloak? Trends in Parasitology 19:571-574.

Curtis, J., R. E., Sorensen and D.J. Minchella. 2002. Genetic differentiation of schistosome sub-populations: factors associated with restriction of gene flow. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Parasitology - ICOPA X: 577-580.

Curtis, J., R. E. Sorensen, and D. J. Minchella. 2002. Schistosome genetic diversity: the implications of population structure as detected with microsatellite markers. Parasitology 124:S51-S59.

Eppert, A., F.A. Lewis, C. Grzywacz, P. Coura-Filho, I. Caldas, and D.J. Minchella. 2002. Distribution of schistosome infections in molluscan hosts at different levels of parasite prevalence. The Journal of Parasitology 88:232-236.

Minchella, D.J., C.W. Yazvac, R.A. Fodrea and G. Ball. 2002. Biology resource seminar: first-aid for the first year. The American Biology Teacher 64:352-357.

Kloos,H., deSouza, C., Gazzinelli, A., Silveira, B., Filho, B.S.S., Temba, P.D.C., Bethony, J., Page, K., Grzywacz, C., Lewis, F., Minchella, D.J., LoVerde, P.T., and Oliveira, R.O. 2001. The distribution of Biomphalaria spp. in different habitats in relation to physical, biological, water contact and cognitive factors in a rural area in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96:57-66.

Curtis, J., R.E. Sorensen, L.K. Page and D.J. Minchella. 2001. Microsatellite loci in the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni and their utility for other schistosome species. Molecular Ecology Notes 1:143-145.

Sorensen, R.E. and D.J. Minchella. 2001. Snail-trematode life history interactions: past trends and future directions. Parasitology 123, S3-S18.

Curtis, J., L.A. Fraga, C.P. de Souza, R. Corrêa-Oliveira and D.J. Minchella. 2001. Widespread heteroplasmy in schistosomes makes a mtVNTR marker ‘nearsighted’. The Journal of Heredity 92:248-253.

Bieberich, A.A. and D.J. Minchella. 2001. Mitochondrial inheritance in Schistosoma mansoni: mtVNTR mutation produces noise on top of the signal. The Journal of Parasitology 87:1011-1015.

Feng, Z., J. Curtis and D.J. Minchella. 2001. The influence of drug treatment on the maintenance of schistosome genetic diversity. Journal of Mathematical Biology 43:52-68.

Curtis, J. and D.J. Minchella. 2000. Schistosome population genetic structure: when clumping worms is not just splitting hairs. Parasitology Today 16:68-71.

Drew, A.C., D.J. Minchella, L.T. King, D. Rollinson and P.J. Brindley. 1999. SR2 elements, non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons of the RTE-1 lineage from the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:1256-1269.

Fan, J., D.J. Minchella, S.R. Day, D.P. McManus, W.U. Tiu and P.J. Brindley. 1998. Generation, identification, and evaluation of expressed sequence tags from different developmental stages of the Asian blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 252:348-356.

Sorensen, R.E., J. Curtis and D.J. Minchella. 1998. Intraspecific variation in the rDNA ITS loci of 37-collar-spined echinostomes from North America: implications for sequence-based diagnoses and phylogenetics. The Journal of Parasitology 84:992-997.

Drew, A.C., P.J. Brindley, F.A. Lewis, Y. Liang and D.J. Minchella. 1998. Tandemly repeated genomic sequence demonstrates inter-and intra-strain genetic variation in the Asian blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum. Tropical Medicine and International Health 3: 373-380.

Sorensen, R.E. and D.J. Minchella. 1998. Parasite influences on host life history: Echinostoma revolutum parasitism of Lymnaea elodes snails. Oecologia 115: 188-195.

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