caa a22 4500 388112727 CHVBK 20180307125357.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022149X99000591 doi S0022149X99000591 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022149X99000591 Mating interactions between Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni [Elektronische Daten] Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni are two medically important schistosomes, commonly occurring sympatrically in Africa and so potentially able to infect the same human host. Experiments were designed to study the mating behaviour of these two species in mixed infections in hamsters. Analysis of the data obtained showed that both heterospecific and homospecific pairs readily form. No significant difference was seen between the two species in their ability in forming pairs, however, S. mansoni showed a greater homospecific mate preference. Analysis of the data using the Mantel-Haenszel test suggests that mating competition does occur between S. haematobium and S. mansoni, the former being the more dominant species. Both species appeared to be able to change mate, with S. haematobium showing a greater ability in taking S. mansoni females away from S. mansoni males when introduced into a pre-established S. mansoni infection highlighting the competitiveness of S. haematobium. The significance of the results is discussed in relation to the epidemiological consequences occurring in Senegal, and other areas where both species are sympatric. Cambridge University Press Webster B.L. Biomedical Parasitology Division, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK Southgate V.R. Biomedical Parasitology Division, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK Tchuem Tchuenté L-A General Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, PO Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon Journal of Helminthology Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999-04), 351-356 0022-149X 73:4<351 1999 73 JHL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X99000591 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X99000591 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Webster B.L. Biomedical Parasitology Division, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Southgate V.R. Biomedical Parasitology Division, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tchuem Tchuenté L-A General Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, PO Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Helminthology Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999-04), 351-356 0022-149X 73:4<351 1999 73 JHL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge