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Land snails can trap trematode cercariae in their shell: Encapsulation as a general response against parasites?

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Terrestrial gastropods are hosts of a wide variety of metazoan parasites and can respond to parasite exposure in various ways. One of these defence mechanisms, the ability to trap parasites in the host shell, was previously thought to apply only against nematodes. During a field survey along an urbanisation gradient, we found that the shell of Cornu aspersum and Cepaea nemoralis can contain encapsulated trematode cercariae, with prevalences of 7% and 1%, respectively over the entire sample, and up to 47% at the local population level. To our knowledge, this is the first case study unambiguously showing that land snails can trap non-nematode parasites in their shell at non-negligible prevalences. Shell-encapsulation could be a more general defence mechanism than previously described, and more studies are needed to understand its importance and variability.
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hal-03947963 , version 1 (19-01-2023)

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Claudia Gérard, Youna de Tombeur, Maxime Dahirel, Armelle Ansart. Land snails can trap trematode cercariae in their shell: Encapsulation as a general response against parasites?. Parasite, 2023, 30, pp.1. ⟨10.1051/parasite/2023001⟩. ⟨hal-03947963⟩
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