Correction: Reconstructing Colonization Dynamics of the Human Parasite Schistosoma mansoni following Anthropogenic Environmental Changes in Northwest Senegal

نویسندگان

  • Frederik Van den Broeck
  • Gregory E. Maes
  • Maarten H. D. Larmuseau
  • David Rollinson
  • Ibrahima Sy
  • Djibril Faye
  • Filip A. M. Volckaert
  • Katja Polman
  • Tine Huyse
چکیده

There is an omission in the Acknowledgments section. Please see the corrected Acknowledgments here: We thank Prof. J. Webster, together with Drs. Polydor Ngoy Mutombo, Moussa Sacko and Charlotte Gower, for access to the raw microsatellite data of Kokry-Bozo (Mali), and the Schistosomiasis Collection team at the Natural History Museum in London (SCAN) for providing S.mansoni worms. We are grateful to all villagers in Senegal for their cooperation and thank the Senegalese field team (M Diop, A Fall, N Sy, MWade, A Yague) for their dedicated help with the fieldwork.

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دوره 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015