What is it about?

Giant African Land snails are a delicacy in West Africa but their population both in the wild and in captivity is dwindling due to over exploitation. This paper helps us to better prepare for captive-rearing and management, via understanding the genetic diversity of both indigenous and introduced species.

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Why is it important?

It`ll help in the proper management of snails in captivity and to follow-up evolutionary trends.

Perspectives

This article introduces new knowledge with regards to an important Cameroonian land snail. I believe that this information can be used to monitor and manage local snail populations to protect the species from possible future over-utilization.

Willem G. Coetzer
University of the Free State

Writing and publishing this article was a great pleasure and fulfillment as a PhD candidate; looking forward to the continuation of other aspects of this intriguing study.

Ivo Woogeng
Kobe Daigaku

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This page is a summary of: Current patterns of genetic diversity in indigenous and introduced species of land snails in Cameroon reflect isolation by distance, limited founder size and known evolutionary relationships, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, January 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1347837.
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